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Detached six-bay two-storey over half-basement former country house, built c. 1820, having eight-bay side (west, east) elevations with extensive recent multiple-bay multiple-storey extensions to rear (south) and east. Now in use as hotel. Skirt slate roof with rendered parapet having cut limestone coping, rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls. Camber-headed window openings with cut limestone sills and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Round-headed door opening with carved limestone doorcase comprising Ionic style columns supporting entablature and having scalloped archivolt, with petal fanlight and timber panelled door, approached by flight of rendered steps bridging area. Segmental-headed door opening to west elevation with timber panelled half-glazed double-leaf doors. Retains internal features such as decorative plaster detailing, carved timber staircase and door surrounds. Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge to east of site with pyramidal slate roof, rendered walls having render quoins and round-headed niches to outer bays. Cut limestone square-profile gate piers to east of site with carved limestone caps and cast-iron single and double-leaf gates.
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