Exterior
Country house, unpainted render (original Roman cement survives on ground floor), with slated hipped roofs and internal valley. Basically square plan, but SW side is longer to enclose part of service yard, with lower service ranges enclosing the other two sides. Two rendered stacks on ridges to rear of front range, and one on ridge of wing. Close eaves with wide-spaced later C19 small brackets on front only. House is built on an artificial terrace to command the view.
Two-storey, three-window broad late Georgian SE front with thin glazing-bar sashes and stone sills. Ground floor within an open veranda. 12-pane sashes above, 4-12-4-pane tripartite sashes below, the upper sashes in later C19 moulded stucco architraves. Central arched doorway with radiating-bar fanlight and half-glazed door. Trellis work, probably early C19 in timber over ground floor wall. Veranda is paved with stone flags and steps to front door, and has glazed roof on thin cast-iron columns topped by trefoil panels. Screen wall each end. Left end wall has 9-pane sash over 10-pane window, and is part of long SW front, to same roof line, gable-ended to left. Nine-pane window over half-glazed door to centre, and to left, three 12-pane sashes over basement window. Beyond is lower range with single sash over 2 basement doors. Gable-end door in rusticated stucco surround and 12-pane window. Right (NE) side is much shorter, hipped both ends with 9-pane sashes to first floor, one to left, two to right. Glazed double door to ground floor right. Beyond are low service ranges, the first with eaves breaking hipped dormer and 9-pane sash.
Rear of house and rear courtyard buildings all whitewashed, the buildings built into bank and reached by steps down from rear into flagged narrow courtyard. Rear of house has 12-pane stair-light to left and 9-pane window over 16-pane sash to right, in angle to rear wing which has half-glazed door, tripartite window and 6-panel door facing court.
Lower outbuildings, NE side with one triple casement. Enclosing rear NW of court is two-storey outside kitchen with rendered end stack. Two-window range to court, door and 16-pane sash below, small sashes above. Slate-roofed hipped shelter with Doric timber column supporting corner connects this door with door on rear wing. Additional outbuilding at top of steps at end of NE side.