Exterior
Country house, rock-faced squared rubble stone with ashlar dressings and slate or imitation slate roofs with coped shouldered gables, formerly with stone finials, the copings clad in lead in late C20. Stone corbels to iron eaves gutters. Windows are generally with shouldered heads to lights, coved lintels, chamfered mullions, and relieving arches over. Between lintels and relieving arches are small quatrefoil or trefoil panels. Plate glass sashes. There is much variety in the stone used, the main walling a grey to purple stone, possibly Pennant, the quoins, window surrounds, relieving arches, plinth and flush bands generally a greenish to brown sandstone, the tympana between the window lintels and the relieving arches have diagonally-set coloured stones, probably Pennant, and some of the principal window surrounds and mullions are pale grey limestone. Lintels and sills are of a pale sandstone.
Roughly L-plan with S and E main fronts. E entrance front has tower to left with bracketted cornice to flat roof (formerly with steep slate roof above), the roof redone in 2001 to slightly pitched profile. The tower has big grey limestone arched doorway with angle shafts, hoodmould, double panelled doors, arched tympanum pierced with cinquefoil flanked by diagonally set stonework. Two-light first floor window with pointed relieving arch and similar single light to tower top stage. Centre has 2 2-light windows to ante-hall with grey stone surrounds, monolith sandstone column-shaft mullions and pierced quatrefoil in each head, 3 first-floor single lights with arched relieving arches, and eaves stone dormer has 2-light window. Large gable to right has 2-light window to attic and first floor, with pointed relieving arches, and broad 3-light to ground floor. Grey limestone mullions. N gable end is rendered and altered.
S facade has entrance tower at right corner and gable at left corner, the lower range between with big ashlar canted bay window. The tower has 3-light window to ground floor, 2-light window to first floor and single light window to top stage. The middle section has single light each side of bay, which has 1-2-1 lights and quatrefoil piercings in corbelled parapet, and similar single light each side of first floor window (originally 3-light but mullions removed). Central stone dormer on eaves with similar 2-light window. Gable to left is flush, the end of a 3 bay cross-wing. Ground floor 4-light (of 2x2-light windows close-spaced with thicker mullion between) with pair of relieving arches, first floor 3-light and attic 2-light, both with roundel under relieving arch. W side 3-window range has 3x2-light windows with cambered relieving arches to main floors and 3 stone eaves dormers with single lights, but ground floor centre and left windows blocked for C20 addition.
A lower rear service range has attached to W side a very large billiard-room originally almost free-standing but now surrounded by late C20 single storey accommodation. Elongated octagon plan with longer sides and shorter front and back. Plate-glass sash windows with moulded shouldered heads and blank roundels to S and W sides. Rear lean-to with curved NW corner. The roof is in two sections divided by a clerestorey, the clerestorey with sloping glazing and detached colonnetes at angles. Above second roof is a louvred lantern with canted ends, slate roof and iron cross finials.
The service ranges between the main house and the hill behind are rendered and generally altered. L-plan main part with a hipped end roof facing E over entrance court and various eaves-breaking windows, and a steeper hip to the NW corner.