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Detached seven-bay three-storey over part-raised basement Classical-style country house, built 1745-7, with five-bay three-storey over part-raised basement Garden (south-west) Front. Extended, 1804-6, comprising five-bay single-storey recessed lateral wings with single-bay single-storey pedimented higher breakfronts. Burnt, 1922. Now in ruins. Hipped roof on a quadrangular plan behind parapet (hipped and pitched slate roofs to wings incorporating gables to pediments) now gone with chimney stacks now collapsed, and no remains of rainwater goods. Unpainted rendered, ruled and lined walls over random rubble stone construction (collapsed in sections with entrance bay collapsed, 2001) with cut-limestone dressings including chamfered stringcourse to basement, quoins to corners, band to eaves supporting carved cornice with parapet over, and rectangular recessed panels to parapets to breakfronts to wings with remains of carved cut-limestone surround to shallow pediments over. Square-headed window openings (oculus window openings to basement to Entrance (north-east) Front; Venetian window openings to breakfronts to wings) with cut-limestone sills, cut-limestone Gibbsian surrounds over red brick dressings incorporating double keystones (plain surrounds to Garden (south-west) Front), and no fittings surviving. Outline of door opening approached by flight of eight cut-limestone steps. Interior now in ruins with red brick irregular bond internal walls incorporating round-headed recessed niches to entrance hall. Set back from road in own grounds.
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