Exterior
Massive square mansion of 2 storeys and an attic, of snecked grey stone under renewed slate roofs. Grand asymmetrical entrance front to N in Puginesque style. The S garden front and E and W walls are symmetrical. The house is characterised by stepped gables with large finials, moulded string courses to each storey, plinth, quoins and square-headed windows with transoms and hoodmoulds. Brick ridge stacks with clustered octagonal shafts, generally in fours, cast iron rainwater goods, the hoppers with decorated bosses.
The asymmetrical entrance front has a steeply-pitched gabled porch to L of centre, with 2-centred entrance arch with shallow chamfered mouldings, below a hoodmould. The gable has prominent kneelers with ball finials, shoulders and a sandstone tablet in the centre bearing a shield. Buttresses to angles, 2-light side windows with lancet heads. Main doorway under a similar 2-centred head containing a half-lit door with 3 panels and 3 lights with small panes. Cross-window in upper storey above porch. A large stairlight dominates the bay to the R of the porch, which is slightly advanced. Four-light, 3-tier window containing lancets under a square hoodmould with raised arched motif to centre bearing stylised initials, and a shallow relieving arch. Sill string course, below which is a single small lancet in a heavy square surround. Narrow bay to R, with a single-light transomed window to each storey. The 2 centre bays have steeply pitched half-dormers with cross-windows. To the L and R of the entrance front are large advanced gabled bays. That to the L of the porch is dominated by a central chimney breast with 2 shafts and 2 string courses, the upper one rising over a recessed square sandstone tablet with initials (possibly D and H) in relief. The R gabled bay has a large 4-light transomed window to the ground floor under a relieving arch, 2 cross windows above, and a smaller cross-window to the attic. Slit to gable apex. A lower 2-storey 3-window range joins the NW angle of the house at right angles, and is part of a U-shaped service wing. Its E front has a wide gabled bay to the R with a 5-light transomed window to the ground floor under a relieving arch and a matching 3-light window above, both with horizontal glazing bars below the transom. Cross-windows to L and centre, except for ground L window which is 3-light. Gabled N end with small window. Below and to the R, a short linking corridor with cross-window leads to a single storey 7-window range, facing N and with 6 sash windows and a 3-light transomed window to L. Canted bay window to E gable end with hipped roof and 1-light windows to each side.
Symmetrical 4-bay garden front. The outer bays are gabled, with 2-storey canted bay windows. Parapets with angle-posts, head-boss corbels and in the centre, a raised, arched motif over a shield. Steps lead up to the bays, although the full-height ground floor windows do not appear to have replaced French doors. Side windows to bays. The garden front has 3-light windows with transoms, except the centre L bay which is 4-light. The inner bays have gabled half-dormers. Cross-windows to attic storey.
The E and W walls are both 3-bay. Gabled outer bays to E wall with single-storey bay windows with crenellated parapets and central motif as in S wall. Transomed 4-light windows to ground floor, 3-light windows to 1st floor outer bays, cross-window in centre, above which is a half-dormer. Cross-windows to attic storey. A metal fire-escape staircase leads from the central attic window, down to the parapet of the R bay window and hence to ground level. The W wall has a 5-light central bay window in the same style as the E wall. Cross-windows to 1st floor with horizontal glazing bar below transom. The central window is blind. Half-dormers with cross-windows to outer bays. To the L, a range of the service wing joins the house at right angles, above which is a cross-window in the gable of the W wall. In the angle of the 2 ranges and facing S is a 2-centred arched doorway flanked by side windows, in a shallow porch, which now leads into a late C20 glazed corridor leading to a portakabin classroom. To the L of the door is a 5-light window with horizontal glazing bar below the transom. The upper storey has similar windows below gablets, 4-light to L and 3-light to R. The gablets have square recessed tablets with rosettes in relief. To the L is a short single-storey range with 4-light window. End stacks to range.
The U-shaped service wing defines a courtyard to the W. Single storey lean-tos against interior N and S walls. That to S has 2 windows and a doorway set back with shouldered head. The N lean-to has a hipped roof with set-back planked door to L. Additional panelled door with overlight to W-facing wall. Horned sash windows, generally 16-pane in square stone surrounds.