The old part of the house dates back to the 18th Century and has a 3 foot thick long-straw thatched roof.  The walls are timber-framed wattle and daub: clay, sand, straw and cow dung mixed together and stuck to a lattice of wooden wattles.

The house sits on just under an acre of gardens with a large lawn and a four distinct garden areas; a large lawn, a small woodland stumpery area with ferns and bog plants, an ornamental cottage garden with the large fish pond and duck pond, and the western lower garden with winding grass paths through large maturing shrubs and trees. 

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