Now in separate ownership from the little stag-headed, oak studded park above which it stands, Chilton was the seat of the Jones family, whose Shrewsbury mansion stood at the foot of Wyle Cop. Originally a substantial Tudor house, Chilton was rebuilt of brick in the mid eighteenth century and bears the date 1740. In the early nineteenth century the house was refronted in stucco, perhaps by Edward Haycock I, and given a new south-east façade of seven bays and two storeys, with the slightly projecting end bays having an additional half storey set beneath triangular pediments. The entrance, beneath a one bay, single storey portico of two unfluted Greek Doric columns carrying an entablature, leads into a hall with a plain cantilevered stone staircase. The drawing room has Adamesque plaster fanning on the ceiling and a pair of scallop-headed niches flanking a chimneypiece with shouldered surround. Originally approached via an avenue from the Shrewsbury to Wenlock road to the north-west, the house forms an attractive group with its outbuildings which include a Georgian pyramid-roofed dovecote.

The Jones family, who descended from the Princes of Gwynedd, came into the estate of Chilton in the reign of Henry VII, when the property was said to have been a gift from the monarch to John Jones for services at the Battle of Bosworth. John Jones was the English name for a man otherwise known as John ap John, who died in 1493, leaving Chilton to his nephew, William, son of his brother, Richard ab John of Holt in Denbighshire.

The main Jones line died out in the nineteenth century with the death of William Jones in 1815, and Chilton passed at this time, through the female line, to the Vaughans. In the late nineteenth century, the family was represented by by H.F.J. Vaughan (formerly Jones who, in 1888, was described as of 30 Edwardes Square, Kensington and of Humphreston Hall), although by that date Chilton was no longer theirs.