A bowed eating room occupies one end of the building, to the right of the entrance hall. The opposite side contains the front-facing library and smaller rooms behind. The entrance hall is at the centre of the plan and leads directly to a generous principal stairwell at the rear. A kitchen is attached to the rear of the house and accessed via a covered walkway.

The building's layout is the same as Soane's designs for Hockerill (1786, q.v.) and Hethersett (1788, q.v.). However, this house is to a larger scale and its design and circulation are more refined, having a decorative front hall with curving corners, an integrated bowed end and a generous stairwell from which all the rooms communicate. The the eating room measures 22½ by 28 feet, the Library is 18 by 24 feet, and the front elevation, from floor to roof line, is 41 feet. Hockerill has an eating room measuring 15 feet 2 inches by 23 feet, a drawing room 18 feet 2 inches by 15 feet 2 inches, and a front elevation on only two storey's, measuring 23 feet 10 inches from floor to roof line.

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