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Detached three-bay (two- or three-bay deep) single-storey over part raised basement double gable-fronted country house with half-dormer attic, designed 1856; built 1857-64, on a square plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled projecting open porch. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Sold, 1989. Pitched double gable-fronted (M-profile) slate roof including gablets to window openings to half-dormer attic; pitched (gabled) slate roof (porch), roll moulded clay ridge tiles, chamfered chimney stacks having cut-limestone chamfered capping, lichen-spotted "slated" coping to gables on cut-sandstone kneelers with wrought iron finials to apexes, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-limestone "Cavetto" consoles retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Cut-sandstone banded tuck pointed snecked limestone walls on cut-sandstone chamfered cushion course on tuck pointed snecked limestone base. Pointed-arch central door opening approached by three lichen-spotted steps with voussoirs having chamfered reveals framing glazed timber panelled double doors having overlight. Cusped lancet flanking window openings with cut-sandstone chamfered sill course, and chamfered reveals framing fixed-pane timber fittings. Pair or cusped lancet window openings in bipartite arrangement (half-dormer attic) with cut-sandstone chamfered sill, and voussoirs having moulded reveals framing two-over-two timber sash windows (north) or timber casement windows (south). Cusped lancet window opening in bipartite arrangement (north) with cut-sandstone chamfered sill course, and voussoirs having moulded reveals framing timber casement windows. Lancet window opening (half-dormer attic) with cut-sandstone chamfered sill, and voussoirs having chamfered reveals framing timber casement window having overlight. Pointed-arch window opening (south) with quatrefoil-perforated balconette, and voussoirs with hood moulding framing timber casement window having overlight. Set in landscaped grounds with "Opus Incertum" piers to perimeter having shallow pyramidal capping supporting wrought iron double gates.
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