Succeeding generations have altered and added to the house and both the outside and inside show a wide range of decorative styles from the seventeenth century to the present day.The gallery,[3] a rare feature in the North of England, dates from the 1630s and contains early furniture and portraits.The woodland walk contains a 17th-century dovecote which unusually still contains the potence, an internal rotatable ladder.The architect Anthony Salvin in Victorian times carried out extensive renovations.A fragment of a Norman Cross is preserved within the church, and many memorials act as reminders of the influence of the Fletchers and Vanes over the centuries.
