Exterior
A Georgian style former convalescent home of 2 storeys and attic, of coursed freestone on a pebble-dashed plinth, with steep slate roof on a stone cornice. It has 3 stacks behind on the L side and another on the L-hand wing, all tall brick shafts with 2 round-headed panels. Rainwater goods have been retained, dating from the early C20 conversion.
The W entrance front is 7 bays in the main range with projecting hipped wings at the ends of 2 bays and 3 storeys. The central entrance has a moulded freestone surround of lighter brown stone, with bead-and-reel border and a pediment, to double panel doors under a small-pane overlight, within panelled reveals. Windows are 15-pane hornless sashes. On the eaves is a modern steel fence, behind which are 2-light casement windows to gabled dormers. Across the main range is a lean-to veranda on cast iron posts supporting a moulded wooden beam, with glazed roof. Wings both have 15-pane sash windows to ground and first floors. The L-hand (N) wing retains 9-pane sashes in the 2nd floor. In the R-hand (S) wing are replacement windows with plain glass to the L bay and 4-pane sash window to the R bay. In the return facing the main front, the R-hand (S) wing has a ground-floor half-glazed door in a former window opening, the upper 6-pane sash of which is now the overlight, 15-pane sash to the 1st floor and 2-light 2nd floor window opening to a balcony across the angle of wing and main range. The return of the L-hand (N) wing has 15-pane and 9-pane sashes similar to the front.
The L-hand (N) wing is brick in the side wall and of C18 fabric, except for the upper storey which has been rebuilt. Openings are grouped 1+3 to L and centre, all under flat arches. Windows are 15-pane sashes to ground and 1st floors, 9-pane to 2nd floor, except for inserted escape doors to the L end in 1st and 2nd floors, which in the 1st floor retains the original 6-pane upper sash as an overlight. The rear of the N wing is rubble stone. On its R side are 15-pane and 9-pane sashes to 1st and 2nd floors, while in the ground floor a door has been inserted, retaining an original 6-pane upper sash as the overlight. On its L side is a brick projection with similar sash windows.
The S wing is shorter than the N wing. Its side wall is whitened rubble stone to ground and 1st floor, brick to the 2nd floor. It has small replacement 1st and 2nd-floor windows. Behind it is a hipped 2½-storey lean-to, with lower 2-storey projection facing the yard, both with replacement glazing. Further behind is a lower 2½-storey gabled 2-window wing with replacement windows. It has an early C20 1-storey parallel range of rubble stone and larger quoins that continues around the rear as a lean-to, with small-pane casements in mullioned freestone surrounds.
The rear of the main range is rubble stone with light-brown freestone quoins, dressings and moulded cornice similar to the front. It has a central half-glazed panel door under a segmental head with mullioned overlight and leaded glazing. It is flanked by double-transomed 2-light windows, below a 6-light mullioned 1st-floor window, all with leaded glazing. Two superimposed flat-roof dormers have 2-light and 6-light windows. Set back on the R is a single bay with 15-pane sash windows and 2-light flat-roof dormer. To the R and L are rear wings, spanned by a coped dwarf wall and gateway with ball finials, enclosing a small rear courtyard.
On the L side of the rear entrance is a gabled rear wing of rubble stone, tooled-stone quoins and dressings, and some freestone dressings. It has 3-light mullioned windows with steel-framed casements, and in its side wall facing the main rear entrance is a reduced external stack. In its S roof slope is a large flat-roof dormer. On the R side of the back entrance is a 3-storey T-shaped rear wing of rubble stone with rock-faced and freestone dressings, and moulded cornice similar to the main range. It has leaded glazing to windows in stone surrounds, including 4-light windows in the rear wall, and added escape stairs on the N side. To the N of this wing are 15-pane and 9-pane sash windows in the main range.
In front of the main range and N wing is a raised terrace shown on the 1890 Ordnance Survey. It comprises a buttressed retaining wall of coursed rock-faced stone and moulded coping. In the centre is a convex arc of stone steps. At the R-hand end the wall returns and abuts the main range. At the L end the wall returns into the bank opposite the end of the N wing.