After the first World War Air Commodore Dame Felicity Peake, the first director of the Women's Royal Air Force and the daughter of Colonel H Watts, spent much of her youth in the house. The house was bought in 1970 by the millionaire Tony Vernon who established Murray Vernon, one of the largest independent dairy companies in the country. He restored the house over the next thirty years. Following his death in 2005, the house was sold for £3m to Mohammed Isaq.