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Detached U-plan eleven-bay two-storey officer's mess, bult c.1880, comprising seven-bay block having projecting end bays with flat-roofed colonnade between end bays, and with further recessed three bays and terminated by projecting single bay. Rear of west end projects by several bays, with flat-roofed block between to re-entrant angle. Hipped slate roofs having red brick chimneystacks and cast-iton rainwater goods. Chimneystacks to east gable have slightly projecting breasts below eaves. Coursed snecked rusticated limestone walls with cut-stone plinth and sill courses. Rendered walling and cut-stone plinth to colonnade. Square-headed windows to first floor, paired to projecting front bays and to paired and tripled to rear, and segmental-headed to ground floor, tripled to front and rear east end bay and some further paired to rear, all with timber sliding sash windows, having six-over-six pane with cut-stone lintels to first floor and nine-over-nine pane with dressed stone voussoirs to ground floor, with some four-over-pane to rear elevations. Colonnaded section has round-headed central and flanking window openings, with recessed surrounds, tripartite six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows with paned overlights and cut-stone sills, and glazed timber panelled double-leaf door with overlight and stone threshold. Building fronted by lawn, with yard to rear.
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