Moor Park was rebuilt on the site of an earlier house for Sir Benjamin Styles after 1720, and was then acquired by Admiral Lord Anson in 1754. It was then purchased by Sir Lawrence Dundas, Bt., in 1763, who also owned other houses at Aske, near Richmond in Yorkshire, and Kerse in Scotland. Sir Lawrence commenced extensive alterations to Moor Park, and also to his London house at 19 Arlington Street under the architect Robert Adam in the fashionable neo-classical taste, employing the finest craftsmen, and using some of the most important cabinetmakers and upholsterers in London, including Thomas Chippendale, William France, William Vile and John Cobb and Samuel Norman. After his death in 1781, his son sold Moor Park in 1784. After passing through several hands during the 19th century, it became the property of the Grosvenor family, passing by descent to the 3rd Baron Ebury this century.