Exterior
Country house, purple sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings. All roofs of red plain tile with broad bands of fish-scale tiles, and crested ridge tiles. Coped shouldered gables with kneelers. Tall corniced chimneys (all raised in height in the 1880s). Two storeys and attic, Jacobean style with ashlar mullion and transom windows. Close eaved roof with C19 ashlar eaves course. N front has original C17 walling to 5 main bays but all windows are C19, some relieving arches over may be C17. Four large stacks, 2 to end walls and 2 to ridge. C19 short E end addition, and large C19 service range to W raised to same roof height in the 1880s for additional bedrooms. Low T-plan service and stable ranges to SW.
N front from left: E end addition has lower roof, tall lateral stone chimney on N and ornate half-round ashlar oriel on E gable carried on a diagonal pier. Moulded half-round base, carved motto, 5-light window and cornice. Two-light window to ground floor left. Main N front of 5 bays, 3 marking former hall and passage, and one bay each for two rooms to W, marked by chimneys. First two bays have stone 2-storey canted bay to left and flush windows to right, of grey (Forest of Dean?) stone, 3-light with mid transoms and dripstones. Bath stone dressings thereafter, smaller windows with top-lights rather than mid transom. Third bay has large Jacobean-style porch with arched doorway flanked by paired pilasters, under scrollwork parapet with ball finials. Inscription commemorating the gift of the house. Two-light window above and then first of 3 close-spaced 2-light attic windows breaking eaves under shouldered gables. Fourth bay has 3-light window each floor and last bay is 3-storey with 2-light window under eaves, 2-light to first floor and 2 2-lights to ground floor, only the first floor window with top-lights.
Kitchen range to right has big slightly projected gable with shoulders and kneelers. Three-light attic window, 3 2-light first floor windows all with top-lights, and ground floor projections, a pyramid-roofed smoke-house to left with louvred lantern, and then a stepped parapet over 4-light kitchen window. Projection continued to right across last one-window section, with first floor 3-light window.
W side raised in the 1880s has gable to left and short wing to right gabled to S, all two and a half storeys with varied fenestration.
Service Court: W range of the service court is an attractive low range in 2 parts, each with ridge stack: the first has 2 eaves-breaking gabled dormers and broad elliptical-arched carriage entry to right, second part is stables, lower, hipped to S end, with timber louvred lantern and 2 tall doors with cambered heads and big overlights. Through the arch, the cobbled courtyard has a wall across E side and single-storey added S range just right of the throughway. This S range has 2 sections, the first hipped to W with chimney to E and the next a 3-bay coach-house, with lower roof hipped to E. Courtyard face of W range has two half-dormer gables and a veranda on timber posts in front of 3 doors
Rear of house is complex. From right: C17 main house has SE buttress, 3-light ground floor and 3-light first floor mid-transom windows in grey stone, then the tall ashlar wall-face chimney of the hall fireplace, then the added stair gable with 3-light windows set to left on main floors, central 2-light to attic, all with top-lights. The next bay left has attic 2-light gabled window breaking eaves, over a decorative projected timber gallery (to solve circulation problems) with red-painted quatrefoil patterns, 3-light timber window and pent roof. Ground floor 2 later C20 French windows with 1889 date between and C20 conservatory. Next bay, the last of the main house, is a short hipped wing with 3-storey 2-window range of 6 cambered-headed windows, 2 on the right blank. Curious structural joint to left of windows, suggesting that this is later than the gable to the left. Chimney to left, in valley to C19 next gable which has narrow service stair lights to right, cambered headed centre window each main floor and 2 narrow attic lights. Chimney on left in valley to end of W wing which projects tslightly further, with one-window range on E face.