The nineteenth-century south facade of the house, which is rendered with incisions made to resemble ashlar,[1] has seven bays, the central five with a single storey, and with the outer bays of two storeys advanced and wider than the rest, designed to camouflage the rear gable ends of the original house to the rear.

[1] Its interior retains elaborate decorations, including plaster cornices and marble chimneypieces, dating from Robertson's remodelling.

[3] The grounds are accessed by two gates, which have square ashlar gatepiers with carved ball finials, which are included in the listing for the building.

Architectural historians David Walker and Matthew Woodworth, writing in their Pevsner guidebook on the region, describe it as a "decidedly elegant country villa, and the epitome of summer splendour",[2] while Charles McKean calls it "a delightful courtyard house", and praises its "unusually beautiful, feminine south front".

[1] Between 1835 and 1841, William Robertson performed substantial alterations to the house, reorienting it with the addition of the south facade, and completely filling in the original courtyard.