Elcot Park in the north of Kintbury parish was built about 1786, but for whom is a matter of debate. At the time of the Elcot enclosure award of 1770, the land was owned by the Rev. John Craven, the sometime Rector of Wolverton in Hampshire and cousin of William Craven, 6th Baron Craven of Hamstead Marshall. The Rev. Craven lived at Barton Court, down on the River Kennet, also in Kintbury, which he held as the inheritance of his first wife, Elizabeth, the half-sister and heiress of Jemmett Raymond of that place. He seems to have had to give up Barton soon after this lady's death in 1779 and her cousin's family, the Whitleys, inherited it. The present hotel presumably considers Elcot to have been part of this inheritance as they believe the house was erected for Charles Dundas, Baron Amesbury, who married the Whitley heiress in 1782. However, the Kintbury Volunteer Group suggest it may have been built as a dower house for Benham Park, so presumably Rev. Craven must have sold the property to Baron Craven for the use of his mother, Mary, who did not die until 1789. The grounds are said to have been laid out by Capability Brown, which is quite possible as he had worked at Benham not many years before.

In 1821, the estate was purchased by Anthony Bushby Bacon, eldest son of the great ironmaster, Anthony Bacon Senior of Cyfarthfa in Merthyr Tydfil, who had been one of the richest men in the country. Bacon Junior had sold all his interests in the ironworks and bought himself a Welsh estate, but by the 1790s he wanted a place nearer London Society. He rented both Donnington Grove and Benham Park before settling at Elcot. He made the place the talk of horticultural circles by installing a hot water heating system in the conservatory. After Bacon's death, in 1827, Elcot was inherited by his second son, Col. Charles Bacon. He lived there for some years, but sold up in 1844 to Elizabeth, Lady Shelley, the widowed mother of the poet, Percy Byshe Shelley, who himself had been dead over twenty years. Lady Shelley died two years later, but her three daughters lived in the house until the last of them died in 1887.

The house was let to a number of tenants, mostly military families, by the later Shelley family, and then by Sir Richard Sutton Bt of Benham Park who bought the estate in 1899. In the 1890s, Francis Hobson Appach, a London lawyer who had written 'Julius Caesar's British Expeditions,' was in residence, followed by Lieut-Col Townsend. The estate of 122 acres was separated from the house in the time of Richard Plaskett Thomas JP, an Indian tea planter, who lived there in the 1920s, and Charles Firth in the following decade. Lady de Crepney was the last private residence, in the 1950s, after which there was an attempt to turn it into an hotel, although this did not actually happen until 1967. Jarvis Hotels, now Ramada Jarvis, purchased it in 1994.

Elcot Park is now an hotel.