Local tradition holds that a projection on the southern side of the structure, referred to as the "tower", was not an original part of the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century house at all, but was instead built up against an earlier dwelling that once occupied the site. That earlier building has since been dismantled, leaving the present house to carry the memory of it in its plan and proportions.

The house itself is a three-storey structure, formal and symmetrical on its eastern entrance front, which presents five bays to the visitor with a central porch at its centre. A hipped roof, which slopes down on all sides without a gable, sits above it, punctuated by two chimneys placed slightly off-centre. The northern elevation has its own distinct feature: a two-bay, three-storey bow, meaning a curved or rounded projection that adds depth and light to the rooms behind it. To the rear, a central gabled projection anchors a collection of later additions, suggesting a house that was adapted and extended over time rather than conceived all at once. Taken together, the building reads as a layering of periods and intentions, each generation leaving its mark on the one before it.