Exterior
A castellated Tudor-Gothic country house of 2 storeys and 9 bays, of ashlar and slate roofs with stone stacks. The symmetrical entrance front faces E. It has wider projecting outer gabled bays (marred on the L side by the later church) with polygonal angle turrets, and a continuous upper-storey sill band. A central 3-bay castellated and buttressed porte-cochere has Tudor-arched openings and pinnacles, and similar arches to the sides. Inside, the porte-cochere is rib-vaulted. The windows to the main elevation are mainly cross windows with hood moulds retaining small-pane glazing and pivoting lights above the transoms. The central bay has a canted oriel window. The R-hand outer bay has a 3-light mullioned and transomed window in the lower storey.
The 5-bay R-hand garden front, which overlooks the garden and the Dee Estuary to the N, has mullioned French windows in the lower storey, opening to an arcaded terrace, and cross windows above with oriel to the centre. In the arcade below are narrow vents to the basement. The 7-bay rear elevation has projecting outer bays similar to the entrance front, and on the R (S) side obscured by the service wing. The L-hand (N) bay has a 7-sided conservatory that overlooks the garden. This has buttresses with pinnacles and battlements, and French doors (partly boarded up) with Gothic tracery to the overlights. Below it the basement has a central doorway with flanking doors, all boarded up.
The rear elevation has a basement facing a walled service court. In the 5 central bays the windows retain some small-pane glazing, while others are plate glass replacements. An advanced central gabled bay has a large 3-light mullioned and transomed window with small-pane iron-frame glazing lighting the principal stair, and cross windows to the lower storey and attic. The basement has a panel door and overlight. The remaining windows are cross windows. Immediately R of the L-hand outer bay is a doorway with mullioned overlight and panel door. The return of the R-hand outer bay has a replaced basement window.
The L (S) side of the entrance front houses an original 5-bay chapel in the projecting L-hand bay. In its S side wall it has three 2-light Tudor-headed windows and a half-lit panelled door to the L under a hood mould (a similar doorway in the R-hand bay is obscured by the later church). In the upper storey are three 2-light windows under square hood moulds.
The long service wing further L is mainly 2-storey with paired sash windows and plain parapet. Immediately behind the chapel is a single bay set back, and with basement windows incorporating pivoting lights. Further L it is set forward with a 2-window return wall with boarded door and vertical ribs, under an overlight, lower R. Then the main elevation has a higher 3-storey polygonal bay flanked by narrow single bays. At the W end, set further forward, is a 3-storey gabled bay, with a sash window lower L and boarded and ribbed door lower R, with a narrow bay set back on its R side.
A single-storey castellated projection is set back at the W end of the service wing. Its W wall has Tudor arches flanking a single-storey 2-window flat-roof projection added in the mid C20. The R-hand of the arches has glazing and a French door, the L hand has inserted double boarded doors and brick infill. Above the castellated projection is a balcony entered from the W end of the service wing, which in the middle storey has small-pane French doors and paired sashes and 3 upper-storey windows beneath gablets.
The N elevation of the service wing has a basement and faces the service courtyard at the rear of the main house. It has mainly paired sash windows. From the L end, behind the main house, are two 2-storey bays incorporating a panelled basement door with overlight lower L, then a higher polygonal 3-storey bay, to the R of which are 2 further bays, incorporating a panelled basement door lower R. Above it is an added projection at lower-storey level, carried on a stone pier. Further R is a wide gabled bay with a panelled door an overlight to the basement.
The church, built against the L-hand bay (the original family chapel) of the entrance front is of scribed render with slate roof. In the N wall is a central bellcote with 4 simple pointed chancel windows to its L and four 3-light nave windows to the R, above a 7-window roughcast lean-to aisle with 2 buttresses. A NE campanile, built in 1952 (date on tablet in S wall) is brick, of 5 stages with 2-light belfry openings and pyramidal roof. The E window is 4-light Perpendicular below a niche with Virgin and Child. The S wall has 4 buttressed bays with simple pointed chancel windows, L of which are 2 projecting half-hipped bays with 2-light windows, the L of which has a projecting gabled porch with double boarded doors. Further single-storey projections are to the L (SW).