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Freestanding irregular-plan Gothic Revival castellated multiple-bay two-, three- and four-storey country house over basement, built c.1810, around smaller house, c.1750, itself on remains of earlier house. Substantially extended c.1990. Now in use as hotel. Four-stage rendered entrance tower to south end with corner turrets. Crenellated parapet concealing roof with corbelled bartizans. Squared-and-coursed sandstone turrets, roughcast main walls with limestone ashlar stringcourses, continuous hood mouldings and sill courses. Triple pointed arch opening, triple cusp-headed opening and single pointed arch opening to main elevation with pair of six-over-six timber sliding-sash windows to side elevations and loop holes to turrets. Adjoining twelve-bay four-storey rendered castellated block of varied fenestration, north-west side having three-bay canted projection, one bay as advanced square-plan squared-and-coursed sandstone turret with crenellated circular terminating tower over corbelled bartisan, ashlar stringcourses, round-headed and pointed arch windows and loop openings. Crenellated rendered parapet with hipped slate roof, rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods, roughcast walls, limestone hood mouldings, tripartite timber casement windows, pointed arch and square-headed openings with replacement windows, all with limestone sills. Earlier house of c.1750 embedded within northern section of south-east side concealed behind extension of c.1990, junction marked by square-plan rendered turret corresponding to north-west side in simplified form. Exposed southern section of south-east side adjoining entrance tower composed of three-bay three-storey elevation with tripartite mullioned hooded windows to outer bays and corbelled quadripartite cusp-headed mullion-and-transom double-height windows to stairwell in centre bay. Deep-plan three- and two-storey wing of c.1990 in castellated historical style attached at right angle to south-east of main block replaces earlier wing demolished before 1912, enveloping a surviving plain round-plan roughcast corner tower with limestone parapet and square openings. North-west elevation extends to north as seven-bay two-storey section screening stable complex behind with crenellated parapet, three-stage round towers to ends and turreted gate house to centre formerly as entrance to stable wing having pair of five-stage chamfered turrets. Segmental carriage arch now filled in. Roughcast walls with decorative rendered stringcourse to parapet, limestone stringcourses to turrets and towers, cross-shaped loop-holes to former gate and turrets, quatrefoil openings to upper floor, small square openings to round towers. Three-storey open-well stairs to main block with cusp-headed balustrade and Tudor-style compartmentalised ceiling.
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