Inherited by Richard de Harrington’s second daughter…

The part known as Over Grendon was inherited by Richard de Harrington’s second daughter, Isabel, who married Hugh Fairfax. Some years later, the property was leased to the Salisbury family. In the middle of the 16th century, it came into the possession of Sir Thomas Tresham through marriage. The Tresham family were staunch Roman Catholics from Rushton, and Sir Thomas was created Grand Prior of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem by Queen Mary I. His grandson, Francis Tresham, was one of the Gunpowder Plot conspiracies.

In 1587, the manor was sold to Louis, Lord Mordaunt, and it afterwards passed through several hands before it too was acquired by Lord Northampton in the early 18th century.

The present farmhouse is described by Pevsner as a handsome 17th-century gable building with mullion windows.