The original house sits within dates from the late 16th century but as it had been extensively altered internally and externally by previous owners it was not listed. The extension to the house provides a new entrance hall, coat store, utility, increasing the size of the sitting room and the addition of a first floor office master bedroom suite and office. The photograph illustrates the Venetian style first floor window above the front door in the new extension. Above this can be seen the dormer windows to the new second floor within the roof space. This has an electrically operated sliding rooflight above a specially designed viewing platform on which is mounted an astronomical telescope. Hand-made bricks were chosen to blend over time with the variation of appearance of the original brickwork; the westerly elevations in particular had experienced suffered extensive weathering giving a wide variation in appearance. Some of the original stone window surrounds had already been replaced with precast concrete; the new timber sash windows were fitted into new stone coloured concrete surrounds. The new leisure building is some 75 yards from the house overlooking the extensive countryside. It is built with a steel frame supporting glue-laminated beams and clad externally in the same hand-made bricks as the house. Inside is a 12m swimming pool, gym, sauna and changing rooms.