The property was eventually left to three sisters, Charlotte, Catherine and Grace. The youngest was engaged to Mr Nicholas, curate of the parish. She died, however, before her wedding could take place. The sisters were also left a very large amount of plate.

After the deaths of the three sisters the estates at Kineton and at Stourbridge came to Mr Gordon Bentley. He thought the situation at Kineton Manor cold and damp. After offering the property to about twenty people, he sold it at last to Mr Hill, a London tobacconist, for £14,000, the acreage being 1,100 acres.

Mr Hill was a man of a most peculiar disposition. He pulled down the old manor house and having spent £6,000 on the walls of a new one, he never finished it. The shell of this unfinished house was, after many years, pulled down by Henry, Lord Willoughby de Broke, when the stones were used to build the bridge at Compton Verney. This building and the old manor house stood near to the clump of yew trees between the road to Little Kineton and Kineton House.

The manor of Kineton passed from the Hills through Lord Brook to Lord Willoughby, who gave £56,000 for it in 1800. The old portion Kineton House was occupied in the beginning of this century by Dr Mead, a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford and Chaplain to Lord Willoughby. He was the only son of Captain Mead of Sherborne House, a distinguished naval officer in the Spanish Wars. The Captain, when ninety years old, went to Warwick Race Ball – an extraordinary feat for one so old and more so when we find that it was his habit to take a dose of calomel every week, a custom which his nephew, a Vicar of Kineton, followed and lived to eighty five.

The house was much altered and improved when Mr Robert Barnard, afterwards Lord Willoughby, went to live there. It was later on very much enlarged by Georgiana, Lady Willoughby, when great additions were also made to the gardens and pleasure grounds.