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Detached eight-bay two-storey over basement governor's house, extant 1840, on a symmetrical plan centred on two-bay full-height pedimented breakfront; six-bay full-height rear (south) elevation. Occupied, 1901. Vacant, 1911. Burnt, 1922. In ruins, 1933. Reconstructed, 1943, to accommodate alternative use. Decommissioned, 1986. Now in alternative use. Hipped slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on pitched (gabled) slate roof (breakfront), concrete ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks centred on paired rendered chimney stacks having stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on eaves boards on roughcast eaves. Roughcast walls on rendered plinth with rendered quoins to corners including rendered quoins to corners (breakfront) supporting dragged cut-limestone monolithic pediment. Pair of square-headed door openings, drag edged dragged cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds centred on triple keystones framing glazed timber boarded double doors. Square-headed window openings with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed red brick block-and-start surrounds framing timber casement windows. Set in shared grounds including relandscaped parade ground.
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