Earlier Houses: The house been a house on, or near, the current house since the 12th century.

Garden & Outbuildings: In 1994 Lady Gass sold 230 acres of the Fairfield Estate on the coast beneath the Quantock Hills for approximately £50 million; the site is now home to two nuclear reactors at Hinkley Point.

House Listed: Grade II*

Park Listed: Not Listed

Current Seat / Home of: Dame Elizabeth Periam Gass; here since 1967.

Past Seat / Home of: SEATED AT EARLIER HOUSES: Russel family, 13th century. William Verney, 15th century; John Verney, 15th century. SEATED AT CURRENT HOUSE: Sir John Dyke Acland, 4th/8th Bt., late 18th century; Alexander Fuller-Acland-Hood, 1st Baron St. Audries, late 19th century.

Current Ownership Type: Individual / Family Trust

Primary Current Ownership Use: Private Home

House Open to Public: No

Phone: 01278-741-400

Historic Houses Member: No