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Detached five-bay two-and three-storey over basement Gothic Revival-style castle, built between 1867-76. Constructed on a square-plan with four-storey circular turrets to each corner. Projecting single-bay single-storey battlemented porch with oriel window above to centre of entrance façade (northwest) and projecting three-storey battlemented tower on square plan to centre of southeast elevation. Hipped natural slate roofs hidden behind battlemented parapet with machicolations and crowned with Irish-style crenellations. Constructed of heavy dark limestone/calp rubble with a battered base and ashlar detailing. Round-headed window openings with cut stone surrounds, cut stone sills and (mainly) one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Round-headed doorcase with heavy stone surrounds and hoodmouldings to porch on front façade (northwest). Interesting interior including an elaborate two-storey hall with a Romanesque-style arcaded gallery constructed of marble and Caen stone. Set in extensive landscaped grounds, which are now used for a golf course. Remains of earlier five-bay two-storey house over basement house with attic level to the rear (west), built c.1680, having remains of pitched roof and stone chimneystacks, one set diagonally to roofline. Plaque with crest of Nugent Family, dated 1680, to façade. Various later extensions to house dating from the early-eighteenth century to the early-nineteenth century (early-nineteenth century additions in a Georgian Gothic-style). Extensive ranges of ruinous outbuildings to the north of the earlier house.
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