The Farmhouse is part of The Symondsbury Estate which has been in the same ownership for over seven generations. A stone over the front door is dated 1689 when the original farmhouse must have undergone a major refit.

The Symondsbury estate is a beautiful, traditional and undeveloped estate, comprising 25% Grade One Farmland. With yellow hamstone and thatched cottages and farmyards, it is set in gently hilly countryside near the world famous fossil bearing Jurrassic Coastline in West Dorset.

First written records of the Colfox family connection with the estate occured in 1280 when William Colfox witnessed a lease of the Symondsbury Deer Park, which still forms the core of the estate.

Fifteen generations later, in 1630, the William Colfox of the day left the area, eventually founding the more numerous Colfax clan in the United States of America of which Vice President Schuler Colfax of the nineteenth Century is the most famous member. Thirty generations later, no longer Saxon Freemen nor Jacobite Puritans, the only surviving male Colfoxes - Sir (William) John and his sons Philip and Edward still own and manage the Estate in a way that the original William Colfoxes would still find familiar.