The rectangular building was on three floors raised above a semi-basement, thus causing to the principal rooms to be on a piano nobile reached from a broad straight external staircase.

The ornament was chaste, alleviated by only by the architrave of the central entrance which supported a broken pediment, quoining at the extremities of the building and massive key stones above each window.

This format of design was typical of the rare late English Baroque, and can be seen in a less sophisticated form at Sherborne House in Dorset and in its full fruition at Chatsworth and Easton Neston.

The interior of Wingerworth was arranged around a central double height hall described as "a model of English Baroque".

Unused by Hearst, it was eventually acquired by architect Wilson McClure who used it as the nucleus of a house in Dallas, Texas.