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Detached seven-bay three-storey over basement Palladian house, modified c.1730 to a design by Richard Castle and masking an earlier structure completed in 1696, with curved curtain walls linking it to flanking pavilions with four-bay principal façades. House refaced and portico added c. 1820. Galleried kitchen to north wing and vaulted stables to south. Pedimented archways to outer walls extending from pavilions give access to stable complex and kitchen yards. Hipped slate roofs to house and pavilions with rendered chimneystacks to house hidden by parapet with balustrade to outer bays and panel over centre. Ruled-and-lined render to house with string courses and giant order pilasters. Roughcast-rendered walls to pavilions with cut limestone cornices to parapets. Niches flanked by oculus windows to upper part of curtain walls with tooled stone surrounds. Timber sash windows throughout with tooled limestone architraves to house. Main entrance set within Ionic portico and is approached by flight of limestone steps. Timber panelled door recessed in tooled stone doorcase with decorative brackets and surmounted by ornate spoked fanlight and flanked by traceried sidelights. Entrances through curtain walls have tooled stone block-and-start surrounds with keystones and pediments. Brick tunnel links the inner stable yard to the kitchen yard with two-storey roughcast-rendered outbuildings. Decorative plasterwork to interior. House set within demesne containing stable complex, walled gardens, mausoleum, bridge, gates and lodge.
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