Exterior
A Jacobean-style country house of 2 storeys and attic, of coursed rock-faced stone, diamond-pattern slate roof and stone stacks with octagonal freestone shafts. A string course is between storeys. Mullioned and transomed windows have octagonal-pane glazing and hood moulds. Shaped gables have freestone copings and finials, and the roof is concealed behind a coped parapet.
In the 8-bay SW entrance front, the 4 near-symmetrical bays on the R side constitute the 1840s house. Of this earlier house, the 2 central bays are brought forward and the 1870s entrance is L of centre. It has a doorcase with Tuscan pilasters and entablature, and balustrade with strapwork enrichment and pinnacles. Double panelled doors are under a round-headed overlight. To the R is a 3-light window and in the upper storey both central bays have smaller 3-light windows, and above them the parapet has an open balustrade. The outer bays of the 1840s house have shaped gables. The L-hand bay has a pair of 3-light windows (inserted in the 1870s in place of an earlier entrance), a 2-light oriel in the upper storey and 2-light attic window. The slightly wider R-hand bay has a 2-storey 3-light canted bay window with strapwork balustrade to the parapet, and small single-light attic window.
The extension of the 1870s has a higher roof line. Beginning at the R end next to the earlier house, is a bay set back (incorporating the dining room), with 2-storey 3-light canted bay window under a strapwork balustrade, and a 2-light dormer with shaped gable. Next, brought forward, is a higher 3-stage tower with 2-light windows, balustrade with angle pinnacles and higher turret on the rear R side with onion-dome roof. On the L side of the tower are 2 bays lower than the remainder of the house, comprising service rooms. Of these, the narrower R-hand bay has 3-light windows and 2-light dormer with shaped gable. The wider outer gabled bay has 3-light windows and 2-light attic window.
In the 4-bay SE front the 3 L-hand bays were built in 1843-5, and the gabled bay forward on the R was added in the 1870s to house the library. The L end bay has half-glazed doors with mullioned overlight, and 3-light oriel window in the upper storey. The next 2 bays have 3-light windows in the lower storey, and smaller 2-light and 3-light upper-storey windows. Two dormers have 2-light windows under shaped gables. The R-hand bay has a 2-storey 3-light canted bay window with parapet, and 2-light attic window. Attached to the R end is a rubble-stone wall with boarded door, leading to the courtyard at the rear.
The 2-bay NW end wall has, on the R side, 3-light window in the lower storey and cross window above. On the L side are a pair of narrow transomed lights in the lower storey and a single similar window above. At the rear of the house, where a narrow courtyard faces a steep bank, part of the service rooms were taken down in the late 1940s. It has a short gabled wing housing a service stair. Its N wall has 4-pane sash windows lighting the stair, and barred windows in its gable end, of which one retains its pantry mesh. On the S side of the wing, where the rear wall of the main house is scribed roughcast, is a 3-light mullioned and transomed stair window inserted in the 1870s. The rear of the 1870s library, at the end of the SE front, has a corbelled first-floor stack, and 2-pane sash and replacement windows.