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Detached seven-bay three-storey over basement country house, built 1779, having three-bay entrance breakfront with distyle Ionic portico to front (south) elevation, and four-bay side elevations. Now roofless and partly ruinous, with moulded limestone cornice. Cut limestone walls having tooled chamfered rusticated quoins. Breakfront has Venetian-style window openings to upper floors, with pilasters, moulded cornices and having quoined surrounds to openings. Top floor has Diocletian window above cornice, moulded archivolt with triple fluted keystone, fluting to pilasters, and moulded sill course with fluted brackets in line with pilasters. First floor has round-headed opening with voussoirs, archivolt with raised voussoirs and fluted triple keystone, pilasters with moulded bases and fluted capitals, triglyphs to friezes, and dentillations to cornices. Square-headed window openings elsewhere to front elevation, having carved lugged surrounds, first floor having friezes with triglyphs, and dentillated cornices, and ground floor having alternating triangular and segmental pediments, all with cut-stone sills. Moulded surrounds to side elevations. Entrance comprises three-bay carved limestone centrepiece having square-headed doorway with fanlight and flanked by square-headed windows with round-headed niches over, openings having moulded lintels, fanlight and niches having moulded archivolts with scroll keystones, ends of centrepiece having Ionic pilasters, and doorway being fronted by Ionic portico, the whole having dentillated cornice and pulvinated friezes.
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