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Detached three-bay two-storey country house over raised basement, built c.1770, with single-bay flanking projecting wings from seventeenth-century fortified house of c.1630. Full-height bows to south and west elevations. Abutting two-storey block and ranges of stone outbuildings to north. Hipped replacement slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, cut-stone coping and cast-iron rainwater goods. Ruled-and-lined render to basement with limestone string course. Roughcast-rendered walls to upper storeys with cut-stone cornice and limestone quoins. Round-headed doorway with timber panelled door flanked by engaged Ionic columns supporting entablature surmounted by replacement fanlight, approached by flight of limestone steps. Square and round-headed openings with timber sliding sash windows. Oculus window to rear elevation. Ranges of eighteenth-century outbuildings to southwest of house. Derelict stable complex with random coursed stone walls and slate roof partially surrounding yard. Ruin of seventeenth-century castle tower to east of house. Well to northeast with recent opening. Garden wall of random coursed stone. Site bounded by River Suck to north and east. Rock-faced gate piers flanked by cast-iron pedestrian gates to entrance.
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