This is a good example of 18th century private parkland incorporating a hall and farm buildings. It is currently reused as a school. The hall replaced an earlier building constructed in about 1765. It has been claimed that this is the site of the medieval village of Hesley (Magilton 1977, 44) although evidence for this is sparse. Extensive crop marks have been recorded in the area, probably representing nucleated farmsteads and field systems of the Iron Age/ Romano-British period. Legibility of the former landscape is, however, invisible.