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A 2½-storey house of whitened rubble-stone walls, slate roof and stone end stacks. Openings are offset to the R side. The entrance has a half-glazed door inside an added half-glazed porch. It is flanked by stone segmental-headed small-pane cross windows. The upper storey has 3 iron-framed windows beneath the eaves. In the L gable end is a stone mounting block. In the R gable end is a segmental-headed window to the upper R, incorporating an iron-framed casement. The rear has added skylights and a C19 added outshut. On the L side of the outshut is a replacement 2-light window in an earlier stone segmental-headed opening. On the R side is a pivoting porthole window in the lower storey and 2-light window above it.

The house has a double-depth plan and central stair hall retaining full-height timber-framed partitions with numerous well-preserved carpenters' marks. The open-well stair has newels of rectangular section. The room to the L of the entrance has a large fireplace with segmental timber lintel. Part of the original timber-framed partition between the main and 2 rear service rooms has also survived. In the room to the R of the entrance is a spine beam with ogee stops. The partition between this room and the dairy behind it has survived, but access is through a boarded door in the stair hall. The dairy retains C19 red and black tiles. In the attic are 3 unequally-placed trusses with collar beams and raking struts.