It is built in red brick with stone dressings and a slate roof, originally to an H-shaped plan, but since infilled at the front.

The Hall stands within an associated park, whose features include a walled garden and the Carnaby Temple folly (known locally as the Pepperpot).

Strickland was reputed to have sailed to America with Sebastian Cabot and to have introduced the turkey to England and was twice MP for Scarborough.

It passed down to his grandson, the Parliamentarian Sir William Strickland, 1st Baronet who was MP for Hedon in the Long Parliament from 1640 to 1653.

In 1720 an extra floor was added with a new slate roof and in the 1760s the front of the house was infilled by the York architect John Carr.