[4] The main hallway features a cantilevered staircase with wrought-iron balustrade and oak handrail which leads to a galleried landing.

The Cotswold landscape is visible through picture windows, and formal gardens include terraces and a croquet lawn facing south toward the Dikler river valley.

[5] The grounds enclose 42 acres, including parkland, fish ponds, paddocks, garages, woodlands and seven cottages.

[2] The house was designed by architect John Loughborough Pearson and built in 1856–59 for £8,000 (equivalent to £940,000 in 2023) for Reverend Robert William Hippisley, who was the local parish priest[6] (rector) (1844–1899).

[7] Pearson had previously designed Treberfydd in Brecknockshire for Robert Raikes (1818–1901), Hippisley's brother-in-law and grandson of Robert Raikes, a wealthy Anglican minister who increased junior education during and after the Industrial Revolution through expanding a nationwide charity for Sunday Schools.