[1] The house is of red brick with contrasting stone quoins, seven bays and three storeys, with a triangular pediment over the Baroque doorway.

Pevsner describes it as "A remarkably early case of acceptance of the classical idiom".

A coal mine on the estate was equipped in 1740 by John Calley, with an early Newcomen steam engine, only the fourth to be built.

Calley, Newcomen's business partner, died at Austhorpe during maintenance work on the engine.

[5] In 2004 local archaeologists excavated in its grounds and found apparent remains of a prehistoric round barrow and indications of Roman defences on the site.