The three-storeyed Renaissance-style building has stepped gables, loopholes and a projecting tower over the main gate.

The grounds include a moat,[2] a well-kept park, lake, waterfall, gardens, greenhouse, and a fountain.

At that time, there was a small manor situated some 2 km northwest of the site of today's main building.

It originally consisted of four interconnected red-brick wings, three storeys high with thick outer walls, a number of loopholes and large stepped gables.

[8] After Peder Oxe's death, his widow Mette Rosenkrantz til Vallø became the owner of the estate.

After a short period of ownership by the Crown, in 1670 the property was presented to Count Hans Schack as a reward for the part he played in the Swedish wars.

In 1688, his son Otto Diderik sold the estate to Adam Levin Knuth whose family maintained ownership until 1699.

[3] In the seventeenth century Gisselfeld was within consecutive Birks,[11] so had separate legal jurisdiction from Bråby Sogn (Braaby Parish) and old Ringsted Herred (hundred).