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Early C19 gentry house, 2 storey with attics and basement; a 3 window range with rebuilt service wing set at right angles to rear. Rendered elevations, probably over rubble masonry. Slate roof with rendered gable stacks with capping. The principal elevation faces the enclosed garden to NE, a 3 window range with central entrance in a glazed timber porch. Windows are large 16-pane hornless sashes with moulded architraves and slate sills. The left gable return has a single, central, 1st floor window and has a smaller window above with narrower flanking windows; all are 12-pane hornless sashes with slate sills. The right gable return has more modern windows, a mix of horned sashes and modern lights. The basement floor has 3 windows and a doorway offset to the R and the ground floor has 2 windows offset to R. There is a central stair window of coloured glass flanked by 1st floor windows and a single attic window set in the gable apex. The rear elevation of the house is mostly obscured by the modern flat roofed extension, built to replace the former service wing; the first floor however retains 2 large 16-pane hornless sash windows, the ground floor has a modern replacement casement.

The principal doorway leads into a central hallway with the principal rooms to left and right. To the rear of the hall is a dog leg staircase with clasping rail on stick balusters and shaped brackets to an open string. To the rear right of the hallway stone steps lead down to the basement, formerly the dairy, which retains slate tables on brick piers and highly ornate tilework on the walls above. The tiling has central panels of hand-painted, naturalistic designs depicting birds and flowers which flank a blue and white tiled frieze of the daughter of the house when it was built. All the central panels are surrounded by patterned ochre and cream tiles and there is a band of moulded painted tiles, of fruit and flowers, along the heads of all 3 tiled walls. The house retains shallow panelled doors, and panelled window shutters and soffits. Most of the rooms also retain original fireplaces and surrounds, the ground floor dining room with ornate floriate tiling, cast iron hob and surround in a plain surround with mantel supported on acanthus leaf brackets (similarly detailed brackets support a shallow arch in the hallway); the fireplace is flanked by arched glazed cupboards with interlocking glazing bars.