Exterior
Medium-sized country house of roughly C-plan, consisting of a C-shaped Jacobean-style front section and a 7-bay Georgian wing to the rear. Of limestone construction with slate roofs, the snecked facade with limestone dressings, and the rear elevation of squared, coursed blocks with sandstone dressings. Two-stage chimneys with chamfered sides, cornicing and moulded capping.
The facade is symmetrical and has a 3-bay recessed central entrance section with advanced, gabled flanking wings. The latter have scrolled, shaped gables with geometric finials, with the windows advanced in shallow, full-height bays. Single 4-light mullioned and transomed windows to the ground and first floors, the latter with C19 4-pane glazing to each light, the former plain-glazed; moulded dripstones. 3-light mullioned second floor windows, lighting the attic floor, with moulded pediments over; 4-pane glazing, as before. Scrolled, shaped gable to storeyed central porch, with parapetted flanking bays, the parapets returned onto the wings. Round-arched entrance with 16-panel oak double doors with 4-pane segmental overlight. 2-light window to the first floor above the entrance, with moulded label and a moulded stringcourse above, the latter continued onto the flanking bays and returned onto the wings. The former have 6-light mullioned and transomed windows to the ground floor and 3-light mullioned windows to the first, with labels as before. In front of the central section, between the flanking wings, is a stone-flagged forecourt, with conjoined octagons in the C17/C18 manner. At the front are C20 low rubble walls with squat piers and ball finials. C19 tooled, tapering limestone pilasters to the side walls. The inner roof pitch of the L advanced wing has a C20 catslide dormer.
Seven-bay symmetrical rear elevation (1770s), with raised ground floor on a moulded plinth; hipped roof behind a sandstone parapet with moulded cornice. The limestone walling was presumably originally stuccoed. Original 12-pane unhorned sashes, recessed and with simply-moulded sandstone architraves; projecting stone sills. The ground floor has a plain sill course linking the windows. Central entrance with full-height architrave, similar to those of the windows. This has modern French windows, with an original 6-pane overlight. The entrance is accessed via a flight of 6 sandstone steps in Perron arrangement, the steps with moulded toes and scrolled ends; plain modern iron balustrade. Rusticated understair with 3-light barred, segmentally-headed cellar light. Flanking the entrance and also at the end bays are further arched cellar windows, with projecting keystones and 6-pane modern glazing. That to the far R has been converted into a cellar entrance and has modern steps from (L to R) and glazed doors; modern iron balustrade.
The 1770s wing terminates on the SE side with a wide, storeyed and canted bay, with sash windows as before. To the L of this the right-hand wing of the Jacobean front section adjoins. This is of 3 bays with scrolled gables, the central one larger and advanced. 4-light mullioned and transomed windows with moulded labels to the ground floor and first floor of the central bay. 3-light windows to the outer bays at first-floor level, with 2-light windows to the attic floor, that to the centre with moulded pediment over. Asymmetrical arrangement of openings to the rubble-faced NW (service) side. This has a central 6-panel door with recessed modern glazed doors to the first floor, the latter with fire escape access. A further, similar fire door with external access is to the far L, serving the raised ground floor of the Georgian wing. 12-pane sashes to both floors, those to the first floor with exposed lintels; some are restorations, and two are in reduced openings.