Bought by Wylde in 1544 from a Richard Morrison the complex of buildings comprising the hospital of St Wulfstan is said to have been founded 1085[REF] though it may have been up to two centuries later [REF].
At the time of the final battle of the Civil War the house then in the occupation of great-great-grandson Thomas Wylde (1622-1669) was made the headquarters of Charles II's Royalist army.