A large villa in the Italianate style of the 1840s and 1850s built of coursed squared Forest of Dean stone with near ashlar on the garden (south) front and ashlar dressings including long-and-short quoins to the ground floor and quoin pilasters above with a plat band going right round the house at first floor level. The villa is centrally planned with the rooms set about a top-lit staircase. Two storeys with a three storey tower set beside the entrance.

The entrance (east) front is of four bays. From the left, a slightly projecting gabled section with a 6 over 6 pane sash on the ground floor, this has a keyed architrave and an elliptical head, above this is a 2-light window with stone mullion, 1 over 1 sashes, gable with plain bargeboards. The second bay is recessed and contains the entrance door with side lights, panelled double doors in an arched head, 2-light window above as before. The third bay is the tower and is set forward again, the ground floor window in an architrave as before but contains a cross-framed casement, probably an alteration of c1900, the first floor window as before but with a bracketted cill. The second floor is set back slightly and stands proud as a four sided tower. Each face has a tall 3-light window with stone mullions and arched heads, timber bracketted eaves cornice, pyramid roof with a tall weathervane. The fourth bay is a c1900 addition as can be clearly seen from the straight joints and the slightly different stonework. The ground floor has a window as in the tower, but not so tall, the upper floor is blind, canted corner with hipped roof end.

The garden (south) front has three bays with the centre set forward under a gable. The ground floor of this has a tall projecting tripartite window with stone cills, 3 + 6 + 3 panes, the centre ones being french casements in the bottom two panes, moulded cornice forming the base of the first floor Venetian window, 3 + 2 + 3, the centre window with marginal glazing. Stone stack on the ridge to the right of the bay. The flanking bays are the same as each other with a tall french casement with an architrave frame on the ground floor with 3 + 3 panes and a paired arch-headed sash with marginal glazing above, stack on the gable end.
The west elevation has been altered by the addition of a hipped roof, two storey summer sitting-room standing on 4 x 3 Tuscan columns. This appears to be an alteration of c1900. The sitting-room is built of timber and has 3 x 3 pane windows with lattice lights on the west elevation and 2 x 3 on the south front. The rest of the front has arched windows with marginal glazing or plain sashes and a door in the kitchen wing. This has two more chimney stacks.

The north elevation has the canted corner of the c1900 addition on the left, then comes a bay with a 2-light plate glass sash on each floor, then a single light one, then a blind gable which is the end of the kitchen wing. This extends into a single storey wing with larder, laundry etc. with a hipped roof, which forms a part of the service yard behind.

(Source: Cadw listings database) S Garfi 1/11/06