Exterior
Substantial gentry house. Rubble stone with graded slate roofs, coped gables and stone stacks, two of them massive external lateral chimneybreasts on S side and W rear walls, two gable end stacks to N and SW gables. Two storeys and basement, L-plan, with projecting crosswing to left of E front. High ogee-moulded plinth. Large moulded stone, mullion-and-transom, windows, with leaded lights, and hoodmoulds, to main front. Crosswing has large S side-wall stack, 4-light window to each main floor (actually 2 closely-paired 2-lights), and 3-light mullion window without transoms to attic. N return has blank 2-light each floor and basement window. Main range to right has 4-window range of 2-light windows and entry in third bay from left. 8 stone steps up to fine sandstone porch of 2 Roman Doric columns, frieze and pedimental gable. Dripcourse above frieze, stepped over centre armorial plaque. Frieze is crudely fluted with armorial plaques, 4 front and 3 each side. Larger arms above with 1628 date. Arms indicate Jones' ancestry. Studded plank door in moulded doorcase, hollow and ogee mouldings, Tudor-arched, under deep-coved hoodmould. N end gable wall is windowless except for basement light. S end, the side of crosswing, has plinth carried around massive external chimney, one-window range of 2-light windows to right, the upper one original, the lower one C20 replacement in timber, in original frame. No hoodmoulds. To left of stack, a lean-to porch, first floor 2-light window lighting stairs, the left side blocked, and attic 2-light mullion window. To left projects an added wing with S end stone stack and C20 window each floor to E front. Rear of house has chimney gable to right, massive projecting chimneybreast to right of centre and outshut to left. Chimney gable has centre 12-pane window in older stone frame. 2-light mullion-and-transom window each floor to extreme left against side of chimney breast, the upper one stone the lower C20 wood. Chimney breast is high and sheer to eaves level, then slated shoulders into broad shaft of large boulder stones. Outshut to left is extended beyond left end of house and has 3-window range, mostly renewed windows. The part extended beyond has a monopitch roof against a high rubble wall at right angles to house E end, buttressed at NE angle with corner stack.