The present Shawbury Park Farm, a sizeable late Georgian house, was preceded by an earlier house that formed a seat of a branch of the Corbets of Moreton Corbet (q.v.) prior to their departure to Acton Reynald (q.v.).

Richard Corbet (d. 1691), a younger son of Sir Andrew Corbet Kt (d. 1638), of Moreton Corbet was certainly living there with his wife, Grace Noel. Although their son Richard (d. 1718) styled himself as of Moreton – following the re-establishment of the family at that house after the death of Corbet Kynaston – his own son, Andrew (d. 1757), and Andrew’s eldest son and namesake, who died a bachelor in 1796, lived at the Park.

The latter’s nephew and Sir Andrew Corbet (1766–1835) – who was created first baronet of Moreton Corbet, of the second creation, in 1808 – moved his family to Acton Reynald in 1800 and was probably responsible for the present house at Shawbury Park, a white painted block of two storeys with low-pitched, broad-eaved roof surmounted by ranks of chimneys. The sash windows on the ground floor, which are each set within segmental-headed arched recesses, point the architectural finger in the direction of John Hiram Haycock of Shrewsbury. This distinctive window detail was used by Haycock at Allatt School in Shrewsbury and was, in turn, derived from its use at George Steuart’s Attingham (q.v.). John Hiram Haycock was certainly on the payroll of Andrew Corbet, working at nearby Acton Reynald and having produced unexecuted designs, in 1796, for a rebuilding of Moreton Corbet.

Yet, until circa 1832, when Sir Andrew demolished it, the main house at Shawbury Park was a house with a main front of six bays and three storeys below a flat parapet. With a uniform array of three-light mullioned windows and with a prominent pair of lead rainwater heads and downpipes embracing the two central bays, the house appeared to be an eighteenth-century re-fronting of an earlier house. As a residence, the origins of the house might originally have been that of a hunting lodge within Shawbury Park. This was certainly a medieval park that was associated with Shawbury’s manor house which had been situated close to the parish church of St Mary the Virgin, within the village itself.