The Dickin family had a connection with the village of Loppington since at least the seventeenth century and the Lays, descendants in the female line, continue to own property there.

Thomas, the younger brother of John Dickin of Loppington, married the widow, Anne Groome, in 1731 and was established at Aston Hall near Wem. His son and namesake, Thomas Dickin (d. 1805) made an advantageous marriage in 1775 to Sarah (d. 1803), daughter of Roger Atcherley of The Cross at Ellesmere (q.v.). She ultimately became one of the three co-heiresses of her brother, Edward Acherley. Thomas Dickin junior, who served as High Sheriff of Shropshire in 1799, built Wem Hall (now known as Park House). His arms, quartered with those of his wife, appear in the pediment of that house. Wem Hall appears to date from circa 1780 and may have been designed by Samuel Scoltock, the Shrewsbury architect credited with the design of Quarry Place House in Shrewsbury, or possibly William Haycock, the architect of John Ashby’s house at The Lion Hotel in Shrewsbury.

Dickin added to his landed possessions with the acquisition of the Chambre family’s estate at Loppington which was sold following the death in 1779 of the Chambre’s representative Rev. George Legh DD Vicar of Halifax. The family, in 1777, also purchased Loppington Hall, a tall early eighteenth-century brick house of five bays and two-and-a-half storeys, which stands in its walled gardens in the centre of the village, and this, for at least a part of its life within the estate, was rented to a farmer.

Thomas Dickin and his wife, Sarah, had a number of children, including Thomas Dickin (1781–1855). This younger Thomas married Jane, daughter of the Hon. Edward Massy of Chester, the second son of the 2nd Lord Massy. Thomas Dickin appears to have been the first family member to be described as ‘of Loppington House’ or ‘Loppington Villa’ as the house seems initially to have been called. Thomas and Jane Dickin were evidently responsible for the conversion of an existing building into a fashionable Greek Revival villa at Loppington House to the north of the village.

The wing of the house facing the north-west is composed of two linked blocks which appear to be the earliest sections of the property and may have been an earlier farmhouse.