Exterior
Country house, white-painted rubble stone (probably formerly roughcast) with squared stonework to the canted-bay features to the left side of the entrance front and right side of the garden front. Rubble stone in the additions to the NE front and outbuildings. Slate hipped roofs with deep bracketed flat eaves and two brick chimneys, many less than shown in the early views. Two storeys, U-plan with three facades: SW entrance front containing the hall with housekeeper's room and servants' hall to left; SE garden front containing interlinked suite of morning-room, ante-room and drawing -room; and NE range containing library and dining-room interlinked, with ante-room and billiard room beyond. In the centre of the house are the stair-hall, butlers pantry, pantry and kitchen, while to left of entrance front is a lofted hipped range of sculleries and outbuildings, the upper floor said to have been added in the 1920s, though more probably remodelled as there are altered windows. A rear courtyard entered through the scullery range has a game-larder at the N corner. Both SW and SE fronts have verandas originally separated by the conservatory at the SE corner, now linked, the SW veranda with stone columns the SE one with iron columns.
SW entrance front has canted 3-window section to left in whitewashed squared stone and long 4 bays to right in whitewashed render. Canted bay has red brick stack on left side, 12-pane sashes each floor in canted sides and 16-pane sashes to centre, while the main range has 16-pane square sashes with cambered heads to first floor, flat-headed sashes to ground floor, 16-pane left window, 12-pane right window (presumably C20 as conservatory was here). The two centre bays of the ground floor have narrow 12-pane sashes flanking the doorway. This has sidelights, reeded piers and tall 9-panel door. The veranda, re-roofed c 2000 has fishscale slates and a hipped centre projection in front of the door, carried on two cast-iron columns possibly stamped Baker of Newport. The veranda is carried on 8 fine sandstone Roman Doric columns with block rustication.
SE side has three bays to left, whitewashed rubble stone and canted bay to right in whitewashed squared stone. The left has 3 square six-pane sashes over ground floor large triple sash to left with timber lintel and two single sashes with brick sides and concrete lintels, none aligned with windows above, all 12-pane, and within a renewed tent-roofed veranda with thin fluted cast-iron Corinthian columns. The canted bay is interesting in plan, the diagonal sides being rebated slightly back to create more defined corners. Similar six-pane sashes over 12-pane sashes. Unpainted plinth in tooled grey stone to whole facade. The NE return has chimneybreast with red brick stack and two diagonal shafts. Added C20 garages to ground floor right and large C20 window above.
The added NE front to right has a big canted bay to left, similarly treated at angles but of 1-2-1 windows, arched to ground floor which is of coursed stone to sill level then red brick to window level. Long arched windows of 8 panes. Similarly first floor has bands of coursed stone each side of red brick at level of windows which are 6-pane sashes with cambered brick heads, presumably this was all roughcast. The next section to right is hipped-roofed 4-window range, arched below, 6-pane above, but is fronted in squared stone (possibly renewed). Window bays are spaced 3-1 reflecting division between dining-room and ante-room. Single-storey rubble stone billiard-room projects slightly to right, hipped roof and NE French window with stone voussoirs. NW end has broad gabled projection in red brick with tall thin brick chimney flanked by lozenge-glazed single lights.
The long service range to the left of SW front is a 2-storey rubble stone seven-bay range with hipped roof. The first floor has windows with brick surrounds, the left one a 16-pane sash, perhaps earlier than the five four-pane sashes that follow as bricks look older, there are two blocked windows to left of third and fifth bays, seventh bay has a broad 6-pane sash. Ground floor has a brick-framed 12-pane sash to right (to saddle-room), older bricks to surround, then a large window with brick cambered-head and louvred shutters (to pantries), then the through-arch to the service yard with stone voussoirs to cambered head, then a cambered-headed 16-pane sash with brick head and cambered-headed broad triple window in brick frame. Stone sills. The archway leads into the cobbled rear court. Rear of service range has projecting section to left of arch with paired hipped gables and a similar hipped gable to right, with lean-to beyond. Flat-roofed kitchen on SE side of yard. NW end wall has cambered-headed ground floor triple window and 4-pane sash under eaves. On bank at rear N corner of service yard is red brick small octagonal game-larder with renewed louvred 2-light windows on 3 sides and door on fourth, slate octagonal roof with glazed lantern and leaded top.