The original buildings were improved and added to by successive owners . Well before the turn of the century a substantial residence and outbuildings existed, however, near the end of the Great War, while the house was under lease, the living quarters had been destroyed by fire. On taking over the property in the early 1930�s Colonel and Mrs. Wilson raised a new building to modern design but incorporating the portion of the original house spared by the fire. This old portion still remains and is in use, providing an interesting link with the past.