Vestiges of strong defensive walls define the fortified quadrangular enclosure which once protected the house and necessary buildings of the Scurlages, who acquired the manor in the mid-13th century. There are no visible remains of these internal medieval buildings, which were cleared away in the late-16th century by the Gibbons, who had succeeded the Scurlages by the early-15th century. Within the walls the Gibbons then raised three ranges of domestic buildings around the central court, with a fine gentry house to the E.
