The original farmhouse of the Gatehill Farm is still standing at the entrance to the Estate. It is partly 16^th century, partly 18^th century and was later re-fronted with yellow stock brick.

It seems it was a mixed farm as an advertisement in the Watford Observer of June 1875 is for an auction of:

“5 ricks of superior meadow hay, well-got and secured from the weather.”

And a few years later was a further auction for the sale of:

“4 valuable Cart mares, a two-year-old Colt, a Nag mare, 12 cows in calf, 8 fat cows and Heifers, 300 sheep, Poultry and implements.”

This was clearly one farmer selling up before the arrival of Willam Mold and his family who took up the tenancy in the early 1880’s and farmed until the 1920’s.

The land had been owned by George Bradley Wieland who had bought it from Frank Carew, a name that is well-known in Northwood history. George Wieland was a Director of a number of Scottish railways and added the Ealing and South Harrow railway to his portfolio in 1894. He lived in Shepperton. His name continues on the Estate as Wieland Road.