It was built in 1851, on the site of a 14th-century moated medieval house.
Nearby there is the site of a moated manor house.
In early days, it was a moated manor house, standing beside the medieval church.
At that time the family house was a medieval moated house.
There was a moated house within the park with stabling for twenty horses.
The engraving also shows the earlier moated house to the south of the new house.
Thickthorn seems to have had a separate hamlet with its own moated house near to the present Hall.
The moated manor house stood at the southern end of the abandoned village site, where there are now farm buildings.
Two miles inland from Sandyseal, there is a lonely old moated house.
Dating from the 12th century, this personally run hotel is the oldest moated manor house in England.
