Two distinct building phases are visible in the structure: the original late eighteenth-century two-storey house, and a two-storey addition pushed out to the north in the early nineteenth century. That kind of incremental expansion was common among middling landowners who had outgrown their first ambitions but could not yet afford to start from scratch, and the result here is a building that accrued rather than announced itself.

The entrance front, facing north across five bays, retains the flat-headed door opening with a brick relieving arch above it, a practical device in which a curved arch of brick carries the load of the wall while the visible doorway itself keeps its straight, formal line. The windows and doors throughout are brick-headed in the same manner. Most distinctive are the curved two-bay end walls, a detail that softens what might otherwise be an austere Georgian facade and suggests a builder with some architectural awareness, or at least a good local craftsman. The roof was originally hipped, sloping inward on all four sides rather than finishing in gable ends, which would have given the whole composition a compact, self-contained quality. To the rear, the remains of farm buildings survive, a reminder that houses like this were working estates as much as domestic residences.