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Mansion house and walled garden, still in use, set within a designed landscape (NO59SE0045). The original mansion house was built in 1686, but much of it was burnt down in 1954 and has been almost completely replaced. The C-listed walled garden was built in the late 19th century. The south façade of the mansion was completely rebuilt to its original design and a new ballroom was added in circa 2010. A 17th century skewputt remains of the courtyard gate. The north wall of the near rectangular-plan, gently terraced walled garden is adjacent to the house, and has a slatted timber gate to the east. The walls are rubble, with rubble coping swept down to the south. There square-plan granite gatepiers with spherical finials in the quadrant walls with a cast-iron, two-leaf gate to the south. At the centre of the east wall are square-plan granite gatepiers that have spherical finials missing, and with simple cast-iron gates. This is flanked to the left by a doorway with a panelled and boarded timber gate. The west wall has a cast-iron gate to the centre. Backing the east wall at the south is a vertically boarded timber ancillary cottage that is orne style with decorative timber barge boards, glazed oriel windows, timber hoodmould to a boarded timber door. The purple-grey slate roof has a lead ridge and a corniced red brick wallhead stack to rear.
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Historic Environment Records (HER)