Burlton, having been a gift from Roger de Montgomery to Shrewsbury Abbey, passed after the Dissolution into the hands of the Griffith family who were the owners in the time of Elizabeth I. It passed on to the Lawley family until, with the death of Sir Edward Lawley, it was inherited by his daughter Ursula, the wife of Sir Roger Bertie. After his death she married the Royalist Sir George Penruddock.

In the aftermath of the Civil Wars, Burlton passed to Arthur Chambre who had had a troop in Colonel Penruddock’s Regiment of Horse.

Said to date from 1420, the house was of just five hearths in 1672. Burlton became the main seat of the Vaughans in the time of Captain Thomas Vaughan who, in 1795 married Lowry Nanney, daughter of William Wynn, Sheriff of Merionethshire. Captain Vaughan died aboard the East India-man Prince of Wales in 1804, and was succeeded by his eight-year-old son, Robert Chambre Vaughan (1796–1876).

Robert married Anna Massey, daughter of the Hon. Edward Massey, and he ‘thoroughly repaired and beautified’ the house at Burlton prior to 1837. The Vaughans’ second surviving son, Edward Goldisborough Chambre Vaughan (1832–1914) found, when he inherited, that the house required significant works and so had to have the greater part of the house rebuilt in 1895–6, when the family moved temporarily across the road to Hatchetts Farm. The house now presents itself as a many-gabled building of dark timber framing with brick infill. The entrance front is south facing, approached through elaborate Victorian wrought iron gates, its five gables bearing pierced bargeboards and punctuated by two massive chimney stacks. That to the left appears to be ancient, whilst that on the right makes a stepped ascent, its lower storey internally, evidently a Victorian inglenook. Between the stacks stands the late nineteenth-century single-storey gabled porch of carved oak, bearing the legend ‘Remember ye later end 1420’.

Within, the entrance hall with oak panelled walls leads to a central top-lit hall from which the main rooms are accessed. Burlton cherished its antiquarian past and Sir Bernard Burke noted that:

‘At Burlton House are to be seen the sword and one of the pistols of Captain Arthur Chambre, who had a troop in Colonel George Penruddocke’s regiment of horse.