Te Hira Including Gate Piers Immediately North West

This is a house, now an old people's home, dating from the early 20th century with later 20th-century alterations. The architect is unknown. The construction is primarily roughcast brick with stone dressings, incorporating areas of slate hanging on the first floor and some timber framing over the porch. The roof is covered with Cumberland slate, featuring hipped and gabled ends, lead rolls to the ridge, and deep sprocketed eaves supported by wrought-iron gutter brackets. Axial and lateral stacks are built of roughcast brick with moulded stone cornices and squat yellow clay pots, one of which has diagonally-set shafts.

The principal rooms face the south garden, while the north side features a central entrance hall with a stairhall to the left and service rooms in the wing on the left (northeast). The house is designed in an Arts and Crafts style, reminiscent of the work of Voysey. It is two storeys and has an attic. The south front is asymmetrical, with a projecting roughcast gable to the right of centre and a parapeted bay to its left, featuring stone mullion windows. Deep eaves are present on both sides of the south front, with slate hanging on the first floor set below moulded bressumers. Casement windows have leaded panes and ornate catches. A semi-circular bay window is located on the west side.

The north entrance front has a recessed porch at the centre, featuring a wide segmental stone arch and an inner doorway supported by Tuscan columns, which in turn supports a close-studded timber-frame first floor. To the right of the porch is a large lateral stack, and to the left is a polygonal turret. To the left of the turret is a large four-light stone mullion-transom stair window alongside another lateral stack, with a low service wing projecting below. A late 20th-century conservatory was added to the east side. In 1990, a bay window was added to the right side of the south front and a slate-hung lift tower was built on the west side.

The interior retains much of the original joinery, including an inglenook in the hall, various chimney pieces (one with a mirror over the mantel), panelled doors with original latches, and a dog-leg staircase with moulded balusters and square newels with finials. Some Art Nouveau electric light switches remain.

Contemporary gate piers are situated immediately northwest of the house. These are constructed of limestone blocks with bands of coursed slate, topped with stone caps. The wrought iron gates are a late 20th-century addition.