 The Heron family acquired the Manor of Chipchase by the marriage of Walter Heron to the Chipchase heiress.He built a massive four-storey battlemented tower house on the site of an earlier house in the mid-14th century.In 1621, Cuthbert Heron (High Sheriff of Northumberland in 1625) demolished the house and built a fine Jacobean mansion, leaving the tower standing and attached to the new house.