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Detached six-bay (three-bay deep) two-storey over part raised basement country house, built 1790, on a rectangular plan centred on two-bay full-height pedimented breakfront; five-bay full-height rear (north) elevation centred on single-bay full-height pedimented projecting breakfront. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Vacated, 1947. Sold, 1949. In ruins, 1976. Hipped roof now missing with no rainwater goods surviving on ogee-detailed cut-limestone cornice. Creeper- or ivy-covered fine roughcast coursed or snecked limestone walls with drag edged rusticated cut-limestone quoins to corners including drag edged rusticated cut-limestone quoins to corners (breakfront) supporting ogee-detailed cut-limestone pediment. Round-headed central door opening with fittings now missing. Square-headed flanking window openings with sills now missing, and remains of drag edged cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds centred on keystones with no fittings surviving. Square-headed window openings with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed cut-limestone voussoirs with no fittings surviving. Square-headed window openings to rear (north) elevation centred on square-headed window opening in tripartite arrangement (ground floor), drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed cut-limestone voussoirs with no fittings surviving. Interior in ruins including (basement): groin vaulted cellars. Set in wooded grounds.
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