The northwest entrance front presents seven bays to the world, with a wide central doorway fitted with a fanlight and side lights, all drawn together within a single frame and approached by stone steps rising to an Ionic portico. The Ionic order, one of the classical orders of Greek and Roman architecture characterised by scroll-shaped ornaments at the top of its columns, gives the entrance a formal, considered gravity without tipping into ostentation.

The house dates from the early nineteenth century and was built on a generous plan: three storeys over a basement, with two bow projections flanking the central bay on the entrance front, each running the full three storeys. Bow projections of this kind were a popular device in late Georgian and Regency domestic architecture, softening a long facade and improving the light inside corner rooms. The rear elevation is quieter, five bays wide with a central hipped stairway projection and wings at either end, also hipped and fitted with Wyatt windows. A Wyatt window, named after the English architect James Wyatt, consists of a central sash flanked by two narrower fixed lights, all within a single opening, and was a fashionable feature of houses built in this period. The hipped roof, which slopes on all four sides rather than ending in gables, carries a central valley where two roof planes meet, and a parapet wall runs along the front and side elevations, screening the roofline and lending the whole composition a clean horizontal finish.