Sited in Swynnerton, one of North Staffordshire's most picturesque villages, the farmhouse is the original Home Farm of Lord Stafford in whose county estate the village is situated. The farmhouse prominently placed on the main road through the village, is next to the village smithy complete with spreading chestnut tree.

Although nowadays more time is spent serving petrol than shoeing horses, and modern cars rather than ploughshares awaiting repair, the business is in the hands of the same family as it was four hundred years ago. It is reputed that it was the village smith, who met Captain Stone - Cromwell's Emissary sent in February 1644 to raze Swynnerton Hall to the ground.

A few yards from the farmhouse Swynnerton's two churches stand shoulder to shoulder separated only by the width of the road in distance but by seven centuries in time. That two churches were necessary in the village reflects the troubled period of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries when the Fitzherberts, strong protectors of the old faith kept it alive in the area.

Later in more peaceful times in 1870 the Fitzherbert family built the beautiful chapel which is now used by the family and villagers alike. The old church with its Norman doorway contains in its Ladychapel a huge statue of Christ in Majesty alleged to have been removed from Lichfield Cathedral and taken to Swynnerton Church where it was buried to preserve it from zealous reformers. Within its Chancel is the effigy of Roger de Swynnerton a Knight Crusader of the Century.