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Detached three-bay two-storey country house, built c. 1840, having central gable-fronted breakfront with shallow projecting single-bay porch (to the south-east), and with seven-bay two-storey elevation to the south-west with projecting two-bay two-storey block to the north-west. Pitched slate roofs with projecting eaves course, cast-iron rainwater goods, timber bargeboards, and with two chimneystacks having diagonal Tudor chimney pots over. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings having cut stone mullions and transoms, stone sills, timber sliding sash windows, and with hoodmouldings over. Wyatt window to the south-west elevation of block to the north-west at ground floor level. Pointed-arched doorway to porch having timber door, overlight, and with cut stone surround with cornice over. Set well back from road in extensive mature landscaped grounds to the south\south-east of Ramelton with complex of outbuildings on U-shaped plan arranged around a courtyard to the rear (north-west) and gateway to the west comprising a pair of dressed ashlar limestone gate piers (on square-plan) with quartz rubble coping over, and with wrought-iron flat bar gates. Rubble stone boundary walls to the north-east. Front elevation overlooks Lough Swilly to the south-east.
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