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Detached eleven-bay two-storey over basement Classical-style house, built 1795 – 1797, on a symmetrical plan incorporating fabric of earlier house, c.1700, comprising three-bay two-storey recessed entrance bay to centre having single-storey prostyle diastyle flat-roofed Ionic portico, four-bay two-storey projecting flanking end bays, five-bay two-storey side elevations, and eleven-bay two-storey over part-raised basement Garden (south-east) Front having three-bay two-storey pedimented breakfront. Renovated, 1806, with façade enrichments added. Restored, 1998. Hipped slate roofs behind parapets with rolled lead ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Flat roof to portico not visible behind parapet. Painted rendered walls (rusticated sandstone ashlar walls to basement having cut-limestone stringcourse over) with façade enrichments, 1806, including round-headed recessed niches to entrance bay with sills, moulded surrounds, and ball finials, moulded cornice having panelled and balustraded parapet over with coping having ball finials, and quoins to corners to breakfront to Garden (south-east) Front having moulded surround to pediment. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, and moulded architraves (having entablatures to ground floor breakfront on panelled friezes). 1/1 timber sash windows to ground floor with 6/6 timber sash windows to first floor. Segmental-headed window openings to basement with cut-stone sills, rusticated sandstone ashlar voussoirs, and 6/3 timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening to Entrance (north-west) Front under prostyle diastyle Ionic portico (having responsive pilasters, panelled frieze, dentilated and egg-and-dart detailed course, moulded cornice, and panelled parapet to blocking course) with moulded architrave having entablature over on consoles flanking panelled frieze, and glazed timber panelled double doors with decorative leaded glazing. Square-headed door opening to Garden (south-east) Front approached by flight of cut-limestone swept steps having cut-stone balustraded parapet with painted rendered panelled piers, moulded architrave having pediment over on consoles flanking panelled frieze, and glazed timber panelled door having overlight. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set back from road in own grounds with gravel forecourt, landscaped grounds to site including terrace to Garden (south-east) Front with flight of cut-stone steps, and terrace to side (south-west) elevation approached by flight of cut-stone steps having panelled and balustraded parapet with cut-stone coping on rusticated sandstone ashlar base.
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