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Detached Gothic Revival complex-plan country house, built 1811, and extended 1856. Faces north. Now also in use as self-catering holiday accommodation. Earlier part comprises two-storey block having three-bay front façade and five-bay rear elevation, former having flat-roofed porch to middle bay and latter having five bays, end bays being recessed. Front façade has three-storey octagonal towers at each corner, eastern being slightly higher and having semi-circular projection to almost full height of west side with turret above, and eastern having higher four-stage turret to south-west face. Rear elevation flanked by three-storey octagonal-plan tower at south-east and canted-bay at south-west. To west of this block is link block on falling ground having three-bay two-storey elevation to south and single-storey mainly blank elevation to north. Main 1856 block has three-storey keep-like tower to north-east corner with projecting four-stage tower to its north-east corner, and multiple-bay two-storey block recessed to west, and having four-bay block to south half of rear elevation, with one projecting bay, and with projecting single-bay three-storey tower to west having projecting square-plan three-stage tower to its south-west corner with octagonal plan from first floor level. West elevation of 1856 block is three-bay, middle bay recessed. Flat roofed with crenellated parapets throughout. Largest towers have corbel tables, south-west tower has moulded courses and slender towers have string courses. Canted bay has bartizan-like turrets to corners with pointed finials and front corners of porch have angle buttresses with crocket finials. Limestone snecked ashlar walls with moulded plinth course, with base-batter to south-west tower. Continuous moulded string course to link block and to four-bay block at rear of 1856 block. South-west tower has circular copper clock faces below parapet of cardinal faces of south-west tower, with roman numerals and hood-mouldings, and tooled stone shields to other faces. Pointed window openings to recessed end bays of rear of 1811 block having timber casement windows with hood-mouldings. Smaller, plainer timber casement windows to north-west turret of this block and to north-east tower of 1856 block. Tall pointed lights and square-headed lights with chamfered surrounds to south-west tower of 1856 block, and canted-arch window openings to top stage of south-west tower, with timber louvers to square-headed and canted-arch openings. Elsewhere mainly double-light transomed and mullioned timber casement windows, triple-light to ground floor flanking porch, with moulded frames and label-mouldings. South-eastern tower of 1811 block has triple-loops to top floor. Porch has recessed trefoil-headed panels to corner buttresses, rib-vaulted ceiling, Tudor-arch outer opening with chamfered surround and moulded panels to spandrels. Square-headed door opening with label-moulding and timber panelled double-leaf door to inner side of porch. House set on landscaped terrace with crenellated coursed rubble limestone revetment walls. Coursed rubble limestone boundary wall terminating in fluted octagonal-plan piers having three-step stile and single-leaf cast-iron vehicular gate to west.
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