 A fire destroyed the whole of the interior of the main house in 1926, with all of the contents of the top two floors.It was rebuilt in 1928 to designs by Sir Herbert Baker, who altered the north façade by introducing a portico above the front hall in order to make the house smaller with an open well in the middle, with a rotunda linking the front and back on the ground floor.The family moved out of the main house shortly after the death of Charles Grey, 5th Earl Grey in 1963.