Exterior
Courtyard
The courtyard has been restored to approximately its original size. There is a hexagonal stone lantern to a cellar below. Ground level falls towards the east and there are steps at intervals. The main pathways are restored pitched cobbles with brick paving round the lantern.
The east elevation has three gables which appear to be a single build of thin reddish sandstone rubble set in deep pink white-flecked loam. The windows are of ovolo-moulded mullioned type with returned hoods; original in the gables, restorations on the first floor, all with relieving arches. The doorway in the centre of the range is original; the ashlar frame has a chamfered moulding with pyramidal stops and a four-centred head capped by a straight hood mould under a relieving arch. The oak door is carved to simulate a round-headed arch of rusticated ashlar. An adjacent ground floor window is indicated by a relieving arch. The north gable projects into the courtyard and has the north range butted against it, hiding the corner. The parapet moulding is flattened at the gable to accommodate a small bell cote. There was formerly a ground floor window.
The south range is of very similar construction and has the same type of door and window openings, largely restorations. At the centre there is a projecting stair tower; this has a wide north cellar door with plain rubble jambs and a timber lintel, and a door to the upper floors in the east wall. This has been altered, either raised or converted from a window, as the head of the present opening cuts through a hood mould. The retaining wall of the steps to this door and the rendered raking buttress on the north-east corner are built of 18th century brick A single bay of the wall to the east is visible including an original cellar light; the rest is hidden by later extensions. These are an 18th century brick staircase with a lean-to roof in the south-east corner, abutted by a single storey flat-roofed extension of the early 20th century date. West of the tower there are two bays of windows and an original door. A pair archways set obliquely in the angles formed by the tower and the western screen wall are insertions of mid-18th century or later date. One is blocked, the other forms one end of an angled passage across the range.
The north side of the courtyard is occupied by two single storey extensions butted against the north and east ranges. Both are built of brick in Flemish bond and the eastern seems to be the earlier. It has a low-pitched leaded roof and two three-light wooden windows of casement type. The room is built off the parapet of the earlier building. However the Vicary plans show that it has been truncated and an upper story removed; part of the lath and studwork stair that led to this still survives. This room has one extant and two blocked sash windows; at ground level there is a two-light stone-framed window lighting a cellar stair.
