 The Manor House previously stood, adjacent to the old church of St Mary Magdalene, on the eastern side of the River Wansbeck.The substantial ruins now standing on the site represent the remains of a 16th-century house and of a porch tower built in about 1637.The original house was substantially demolished and rebuilt in about 1810, then abandoned by the Mitfords when they built a new mansion house, Mitford Hall, and park on the opposite bank of the river in 1828.