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Detached seven-bay two-storey over basement country house with dormer attic, extant 1777, on an L-shaped plan centred on three-bay three-storey breakfront; four-bay (single-bay deep) two-storey perpendicular wing (north) with single-bay two-storey turrets on circular plans. "Improved", c.1790, producing present composition. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Restored, 1940-4. Pitched (M-profile) slate roof behind parapet; hipped slate roof (breakfront), clay ridge tiles, grouped rendered diagonal chimney stacks (west) or rendered chimney stacks (east) on rendered bases having stepped capping, and concealed rainwater goods; hipped slate roof behind parapet (wing) with concealed rainwater goods. Part creeper- or ivy-covered lime rendered battered walls on cut-limestone chamfered cushion course on plinth with Irish battlemented parapets on beaded consoles having lichen-spotted coping; rendered walls (wing) on cut-limestone chamfered cushion course on rendered base with Irish battlemented parapets on beaded consoles having rendered coping. Square-headed central door opening with dragged cut-limestone step threshold supporting wrought iron bootscrapers, and dragged cut-limestone doorcase with ogee-detailed segmental pediment on inscribed frieze ("HOR") framing timber panelled door. Curvilinear-headed central window opening (first floor) with concealed dressings framing four-over-four timber sash window having part exposed sash box. Square-headed window openings (breakfront) with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing four-over-four timber sash windows without horns having part exposed sash boxes. Square-headed window openings in shallow camber-headed recesses (top floor) centred on inscribed cut-limestone coat of arms ("1641") with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed yellow brick block-and-start surrounds framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings in shallow camber-headed recesses with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing nine-over-six timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Square-headed window openings (wing) with drag edged dragged cut-limestone chamfered sill course, and concealed dressings with hood mouldings framing nine-over-nine timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings (first floor) with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings with hood mouldings framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Lancet window openings (turrets) with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings with hood mouldings framing four-over-two timber sash windows without horns having Y-tracery glazing bars. Set in landscaped grounds.
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