 In 2010, the National Trust undertook a major restoration project to the house using traditional wattle and daub building methods.The Brockhampton Estate was bequeathed to the National Trust in 1946 by Colonel John Lutley, in whose family it had been for more than twenty generations, although the name of the family had changed several times through marriage.The site of the medieval village of Studmarsh is thought to be located in the estate.