After Pauline Jermyn married the naturalist Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan, they began hosting literary and scientific figures at the Hall.
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Charles Philips Trevelyan inherited the property from his father George Otto Trevelyan in 1928.
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The hall house was rebuilt in 1688 around the ancient Pele Tower house for Sir William Blackett and was later substantially rebuilt again, in Palladian style, for Sir Walter Blackett by architect Daniel Garret, before passing to the Trevelyan family in 1777.
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It was designed in 1755 by architect Daniel Garrett for Sir Walter Blackett owner of Wallington Hall, from where it is visible on the hillside.
He bequeathed his estates at Allendale, Northumberland and Wallington Hall, Cambo to his nephew Sir Walter Calverley, 2nd Baronet of Calverley, conditional upon the latter's marriage to Elizabeth Orde, Blackett's natural daughter and his change of name to Blackett.
He settled at Cambo, where he expended considerable sums on improvements to Wallington Hall, which he remodelled in the then fashionable Palladian style to designs by architect Daniel Garrett.