The early history of Harlescott House or Grange is uncertain but, by the seventeenth century, it had become the seat of a branch of the Hussey family from Albright Hussey (q.v.). William and Mary Hussey were living there when their daughter, Elizabeth, was baptised at St Mary’s, Shrewsbury on 7th August 1680.

The house, which succumbed to demolition in the twentieth century, was located to the south side of the still extant moat and its entrance front appeared to be of early eighteenth-century date. Of three bays and two storeys, the windows had segmental arched heads and keystones, whilst the central door was set within a later single storey portico of entablature supported by fluted Greek Doric columns. The house contained an oak staircase and panelling which was conjectured to have been of a date earlier than the eighteenth century and possibly reset from the previous building. When works were undertaken to the house in 1892, old oak beams that were evidently from a timber-framed building were discovered and it was speculated that they might have been salvage from the building that had formerly stood within the moat.

Harlescott House became the property of the Lloyds of Leaton (q.v.) and it passed to Scarlett Lloyd, the second son of Edward Lloyd of Leaton (d. 1764) and his wife, Susanna, daughter and heiress of Peter Scarlett of Hogstow near Minsterley. Scarlett Lloyd was also described as ‘of Fitz’, a village on the River Severn to the west of Harlescott. He married, as his third wife, Martha Denston, and the couple’s daughter, Susannah, eventually succeeded to Harlescott. She was married to Captain Edward Parry and their descendant, Edwin Parry, was resident in 1897, when the moat was described as ‘one of the most perfect in the county. It is square, and lined on both sides with masonry of red sandstone’. The area within the moat was then used as a garden and nothing remained of the house that had once occupied it.

The Parrys’ eldest son, Scarlett Lloyd Parry, removed an entail that had been placed on Harlescott and sold the property to a Mr Haworth who, in turn, devised the property to his brother Hargreave Haworth of Green Hill, Bacup, Lancashire.