 It was one of the first 20th-century building to be given a grade I listing, in 1950.Other structures in the grounds received a grade II listing in 1986.It has been described by Nigel Jones as "the perfect house that many in Britain aspire to own", and by Arthur Stanley George Butler as "Sir Edwin's supreme rendering of the full Georgian idiom … This very perfect work establishes itself as a high peak in Sir Edwin's achievement".