It consisted by a rampart reaching approximately 3 metres (9.8 ft), surrounding a triangular courtyard.
The present building was built 1913-1915 in an eclectic Art Nouveau style with strong neo-Gothic influences.
Estonian composer Urmas Sisask has furnished a planetarium at the top of the tower.
[3] In the early 1900s the manor was owned by Countess, later Baroness, Moura (Maria Zakrevskaya Benckendorff) Budberg, who has been called the "Mata Hari of Russia" and who was close to Sir R. H. Bruce Lockhart, Russian writer Maxim Gorky and H. G.
Ugri.info seminar on Finno-Ugric languages and infosystems was held at the manor on either 3 December 2004 or March 12, 2004.