It is protected and recognised in the highest category of the three in the English statutory scheme, as a Grade I listed building.
[1] It is built of brick with stone dressings and a hipped (sloped) slate roof to a double-pile floor plan.
Within the remaining demesne grounds is a notable Spanish chestnut tree which is thought to pre-date 1714.
At the end of the century, his £20,000 debts in legal fees from defending himself from accusations of lunacy principally for contracting a left-handed marriage and being profligate, caused the property to be sold in 1900 to Joseph Gurney Barclay for his third son, Army officer Henry Barclay, aide-de-camp to Edward VII of the United Kingdom (1906–10) and George V (1910-25).
[3] Henry's descendant, and significant heir, Michael, was convicted and briefly gaoled in 2006 for wildlife offences.