The entrance bay is set back in a shallow recess with unusual convex sides, framed by a wooden portico with slim Doric columns, and a large window fills what might otherwise be an unremarkable doorway surround. But the symmetry feels slightly off, and there is a reason for that: the façade as it now stands is not quite the façade as it was first conceived.

According to the owner, the house was built in the 1760s by James Morrison. It is a substantial structure, four bays wide and three storeys tall, with a hipped roof, projecting eaves, and an elevation finished in weatherslating, a protective cladding of overlapping slate fixed to exterior walls to shed rain in exposed or damp conditions. What distinguishes the composition architecturally is its rounded corner, framed by blocked quoins, the alternating large and small stones used to reinforce and decorate a corner, with windows curving around it at the same level as those on the main front but a single light wider. Mark Bence Jones, writing in 1978, suggested that the house originally had a recessed centre flanked by two projecting wings with rounded corners, a more elaborate and perhaps more theatrical arrangement than what survives today. The owner's account supports this reading: sometime in the 1830s, when a second floor was added, the recess on the upper two storeys was filled in, flattening what had been a more complex composition into something closer to a conventional Georgian front.

To the south of the house, within the walled garden, there are the remains of a square two-storey gate tower, still carrying the remnants of a bellcote at its top. A bellcote is a small open turret or housing designed to hold a bell, most commonly associated with churches but occasionally found on estate buildings, where bells were used to signal meal times or the working day. Its presence here, half-absorbed into the garden wall, suggests a more formal arrangement of outbuildings that once gave the property a more imposing character than its present appearance might suggest.