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Detached four-bay two-storey over basement house, c.1775, originally four-bay three-storey incorporating fabric of medieval castle, 1488, to basement with prostyle tetrastyle Ionic portico to centre, and three-bay two-storey side elevations having single-bay two-storey breakfront to south-east. Extended, 1866, with three-bay single-storey flanking lateral wings added to north-west and to south-east. Burnt, 1894. Extensively reconstructed, post-1894 - 1896, producing present aspect. Hipped slate roofs (behind parapets to wings) with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks (on axis with ridge to main block), and cast-iron rainwater goods (on moulded corbels to main block). Flat roof to portico not visible behind blocking course. Painted rendered walls with cut-stone dressings to wings including frieze, moulded cornices, and blocking course to parapets. Square-headed window openings (in tripartite arrangement to breakfront to side (south-east) elevation) with rendered sills, moulded rendered surrounds, and moulded entablatures to ground floor main block and to wings on consoles. Replacement 1/1 timber sash windows, post-1894 - 1896, with 1/1 sidelights to tripartite openings. Elliptical-headed door opening under prostyle tetrastyle Ionic portico approached by flight of six cut-limestone steps (having paired columns on pedestals with responsive pilasters supporting frieze, moulded cornice, and zinc-lined blocking course) with rendered Composite surround supporting archivolt, timber panelled double doors with engaged Composite flanking columns supporting entablature, decorative sidelights, and fanlight. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set back from road in own grounds with gravel forecourt, and landscaped grounds to site.(ii) Attached seven-bay single-storey cast-iron conservatory, 1866, to south-west with five-bay single-storey side elevations. Hipped glazed roof in iron frame with hipped glazed lantern to apex having decorative cresting and finials. Square-headed window openings with fixed-pane iron windows (with pointed-arch panels) having casement sections over, and iron casement windows to lantern.
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