 It is constructed in sandstone rubble, with a slate roof, and is in Jacobethan style.The building incorporates a battlemented tower with an octagonal corner turret.It was built between 1831 and 1836 on the site of an earlier house to a design by George Webster for Thomas Greene, M.P.. On Greenes death in 1872 it passed to his eldest son, Army Officer Dawson Cornelius Greene (1822–87), who retired to live in London and was succeeded by his son, Henry Dawson Dawson-Greene.