[1] A fortified manor house was built on the site in the 1340s by Robert Corbie.

[2][3] In 1771, Sir Horatio's sister Catherine married James Cornwallis.

It is a two-storey building aligned roughly north-south with an attic floor in the roof.

It is built mostly of local rag-stone with a tiled roof and stone framed windows in a variety of sizes, but also has later sections constructed of red brick.

The interior features some 16th-century moulded plaster ceilings, but historic timber panelling dating from the 1520s was removed from the house in 1923 and taken to the United States.