Upon his death in 1729 it was sold and in 1735 it was bought by the notorious Hell Fire Club. This was a gathering of young bucks from the nobility and the officer corps who were celebrated for their excesses during evenings of licentiousness, blasphemous toasts and devil worshipping.

With the demise of the club in the 1740s the sturdy lodge was abandoned. Today the substantial ruin provides an unrivalled viewpoint over the whole city. 

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