[1] It is constructed in sandstone rubble, with a slate roof, and is in Jacobethan style.

[1] The building incorporates a battlemented tower with an octagonal corner turret.

[2] It was built between 1831 and 1836 on the site of an earlier house to a design by George Webster for Thomas Greene, M.P.

[1][2] On Greene's death in 1872 it passed to his eldest son, Army Officer Dawson Cornelius Greene (1822–87), who retired to live in London and was succeeded by his son, Henry Dawson Dawson-Greene.

In 1887 the Lancaster architects Paley and Austin arranged alterations, including a billiard room, another staircase, and a garden loggia.