 The old manor house stood partly in the parish of Luton and partly in the parish of Houghton Regis; most of the manor buildings were destroyed by fire in 1832.Lewsey is much older than neighbouring Lewsey Farm and Lewsey Park, first built on land off Dunstable Road in the 1950s along with the hospital.At this time it was a fairly rural suburb, surrounded by farmland on all sides, including the original Lewsey Farmhouse to the north (now the site of Lewsey Farm).