They are domestic in the most literal sense, the kind of detail that tends to disappear from a building's story once the grander architectural features claim attention. Yet those ovens, and the niches beside them, say something about the working life of a house that has always seemed slightly uncertain about exactly what it is and when it became so.

The house itself is a two-storey structure over that basement, five bays wide on its south-facing entrance front, with ashlar quoins, a moulded stone cornice under the eaves, and a central segmental-arched doorway with sidelights. The walls beneath the render are random-rubble limestone, and lower gabled additions extend from each gable end, prolonging the front elevation and giving the building a settled, gradually accumulated look. The owner has described it as a dower house, meaning a residence set aside for a widow of the main estate, rebuilt in 1722 for nearby Springfort Hall. The date is plausible enough as a matter of local tradition, but the windows and door as they appear today read as mid-nineteenth century work, suggesting significant remodelling somewhere along the line. A stone plaque on the farm buildings to the rear, arranged around a yard in the typical two-storey range pattern of the period, is more precisely dated: it bears the inscription "C W Wyatt / October / 1853", a name and moment fixed in oval stone while the main house keeps its own chronology slightly blurred. The rear elevation has one further quietly distinctive feature, a small round-headed stairway window that faces away from the formal front and belongs to no particular style, just a practical opening doing a practical job.