After the vicars moved out to new accommodation in the village the house was sub-divided into two cottages and tenanted. This, in around 1741, bought further changes such as the south bay of the cross wing being demolished and replaced with a coursed flint lean-to which ran the length of the building. By the 1870’s however the house was not being maintained to the standard it had been used to and fell into disrepair its future no longer secure. This change eventually led to its sale to the National Trust in 1896. By then it was in danger of collapse, and after spending £10 to purchase the house, it cost the Trust over £400 for the complete restoration. The interior of the building remains much as the Trust arranged it in the 1890s.