Well, you guessed right! The building you see in the following images is the most modern, if you can call it that, of several iterations of its kind on the site. There had been a hall at Malsis since the Middle Ages. Members of the Copley family of Batley resided at the first hall at Malsis for a period of almost 300 years until the 1540s when houses in Malsis were burned down during a period of civil unrest arising from opposition to the enclosure of the common fields and the process of shaping britains rural landscape began.