 The house passed through descent to Barons Oranmore and Browne whose family seat it became.It was sold in 1930  and used as a prisoner of war camp during World War II.In the 1950s and 1960s it was owned by artist Michael Lambert Tree (1921–1999), a son of Ronald Tree and an heir to the Marshall Field mercantile fortune, and his wife, Lady Anne Cavendish, daughter of the 10th Duke of Devonshire.