Exterior
Large country house of irregular plan in restrained Georgian classical style. Of limestone rubble construction, formerly rendered, with sandstone dressings. Hipped and graded slate roof with plain, rendered chimneys. The principal facade faces SE and is symmetrical and of 9-bays. This has a 3-storey, 3-bay central section recessed between advanced 3-bay wings with hipped roofs. These have 2 storeys of windows, and whilst that to the L is indeed a c1800 2-storey wing, that to the R is in fact an earlier 3-storey wing, with merely the external appearance of 2-storeys. The lower half of the upper floor windows here are correspondingly blind, cutting as they do across the level of the intermediate floor. The end bay of this wing is also an addition, added to balance-up the 3-bay section to the L. 12-pane unhorned sashes, all original, with moulded stucco surrounds and some red brick constructional quoining and voussoirs visible; sandstone sills.
The central bay has a tetrastyle portico 'in antis' with central part-glazed entrance within; flanking 12-pane sashes, renewed scribed stucco. The first floor has a tripartite central sash with 12-pane central, and narrow flanking 4-pane sections; 12-pane outer sashes. A further, smaller 12-pane sash appears on the inner return of the right-hand wing at this level, corresponding to the intermediate floor; blocked-up window on the opposite return. The second floor of the central section has 6-pane sashes flanking a 4-pane central casement (a late C19 conversion). Continuous moulded cornice with parapet, returned around the sides and rear.
The SW side is of 2 storeys and is roughcast with moulded stucco surrounds and quoins; this treatment is returned onto the entrance facade a short distance to allow the quoins to return. Three-window elegant bow with flanking windows, that to the L on the ground floor now converted to a C20 part-glazed entrance, with 6-pane overlight. 18-pane sashes to the ground floor bow with a 15-pane flanking window to the ground-floor R; the first-floor windows are all 12-pane sashes.
The rear elevation is more-or-less symmetrical and has a recessed central section flanked by large 3-storey canted bays, all work of the 1760s; of rubble (formerly rendered) with brick surrounds to the openings and sandstone sills. The central section has an early C19 2-storey extrusion with depressed-arched entrance to the L and a C20 fire escape ascending to a former first-floor window, now a part-glazed door. The canted bays have 6-pane sashes to the second floor and 12-pane sashes to the ground and first floor of the left-hand one, some dummies; the right-hand bay has an 8-pane French window to the ground floor centre, with flanking 12-pane sashes; tall early C19 18-pane sashes to the first floor. Tripartite sash windows to the early C19 single-bay storeyed wings to the L and R of this central 1760s block, that to the L with leaded tripartite basement window.
The NE (farmyard-facing) side has 12-pane C18 sashes and 20-pane C19 sashes in an asymmetrical arrangement; modern fire escape to the L. At basement level there is a C17 boarded and studded door in a pegged, chamfered frame, with decorative ironwork; flanking 2-light wooden mullioned windows. Adjoining this elevation is an early C19 block which links the main house with an C18 pedimented pavilion wing of 2 low storeys; blind oculus in the pediment; further tripartite and 12-pane sashes. This block has a single-storey hipped addition to the SE which itself adjoins a hipped rectangular ty bach block. This has 2 pointed-arched entrances and Gothick windows with simple intersecting glazing bars. This side of the house has adjoining rubble walls enclosing produce garden and service court spaces to the NE.