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Detached U-plan three-bay two-storey over basement bishop's palace and diocesan office, built c.1930, with projecting end bays, seven-bay side elevation to south having full-height central canted bay, canted bay to west and single-storey return to north. Hipped pantiled roofs with projecting rendered eaves, brick chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Red brick walls laid in English garden wall bond with smooth render to basement. Stepped brick parapet over southern canted bay. Square- headed window openings with concrete sills and eight-over-eight and eight-over-twelve (ground floor east elevation) timber sash windows. Four-over-four timber sash windows to sides of canted bay. Windows set in shallow recesses to ground floor having soldier laid brick lintels and clay tile window aprons. Wrought-iron guard rails to basement openings. Square-headed door opening to east set in shallow round headed recess formed by pilasters supporting archivolt with carved plaque to tympanum. Timber panelled double-leaf doors with leaded glass tripartite overlight and moulded lintel with interlace motif. Door accessed by limestone steps. Set in own grounds with entrance to south-east comprising smooth rendered square-profile gate piers with brick plat band to cast-iron gates
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