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Detached four-bay two and three-storey former country house, built 1864, to designs of architect John McCurdy in High Victorian Gothic style. Now in use as bishop's palace. Projecting gabled bay to east of porch, octagonal corner tower to south-facing side elevation, and return to rear. Pitched roofs with patterned slates, ashlar chimneystacks, decorative cast-iron finials and cast-iron rainwater goods. Snecked limestone walls with red brick courses at window head and sills levels. Carved stone plaque with date and landlord's initials to front elevation. Pointed-arch window openings with limestone and red brick surrounds, limestone sills and timber sliding sash windows. Canted bay windows to projecting gabled bay to front elevation. Gabled porch with pointed-arch doorway with timber double-leaf door flanked by sidelights, accessed by limestone steps. Gable-fronted outbuilding to rear yard. Two-storey outbuilding to rear of house with limestone dressing to carriage-arch opening and cut limestone bellcote. House set within mature parklands and accessed by winding driveway.
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