 Howick Hall is the location of the Howick Hall Gardens & Arboretum.Howick has been owned by the Grey family since 1319.A tower house, which once stood on the site and was demolished in 1780, was described in a survey of 1715 as "a most magnificent freestone edifice in a square figure, flat roofed and embattled" and with "a handsome court and gateway on the front".