[1] The authors of the Buildings of England series describe it as a "house of considerable size and panache".

[5] The house is built in red sandstone with a grey-green slate roof.

To the right of the entrance porch the house continues for two bays leading to the servants' wing at right angles.

This has mullioned and transomed canted windows, a crenellated parapet and a pyramidal roof.

[1] The monograms "JD" and "STD" (for Sholto Theodore Douglas) appear on the building.

[7] On the staircase is a stained glass window commemorating Captain Richard Douglas who died in the Peninsular War.