18th century house built by Thomas Fydell, a Chepstow merchant, possibly in the year in which he was sherriff, 1772. It is on the site of an earlier house, and the avenue of trees was recognised as a pilot's mark in 17th century. There are a range of former service buildings including the lodge, now modernised and converted to separate private dwellings. Parts of these may pre-date the main house, especially the range with a steep-pitched roof with large slates in diminishing courses and wide external stack of narrow bricks.

A large Georgian house with the exterior walls stucco rendered and painted. It has a hipped slate roof behind a high parapet, and narrow, rendered, off-ridge and lateral stacks. The house is two storeys and the entrance frontage has raised rendered quoins, a platband, and voussoirs with keystone. Above two bays there are blind panels in the parapet. The front is a three-window range of small-pane sashes, with large and tri-partite windows to the outer bays. Off centre to the left is a porch with a round arched fanlight with radial glazing set partly within the open pediment.
Set back to the left is a hipped roofed wing. The south elevation was remodelled in the mid 19th century.
The house and associated ranges and gardens are bordered on the roadside by a high stone wall, swept down to a part-railed entrance bay with gate-piers.

At one time in use as a Youth Hostel.

(Source; CAdw listing database) S Fielding RCAHMW 01/06/2006