This five-storey rectangular fortress, measuring 10.6 metres northeast to southwest and 9.2 metres northwest to southeast, rises from poorly drained pastureland that nonetheless offers commanding views to the west and north. Built from roughly coursed limestone and sandstone conglomerate, its walls are an impressive 2.7 metres thick with a slight batter at the base, typical of defensive architecture from this period.

The tower’s defensive features reveal the dangerous times in which it was built. Entry was through a doorway in the northeast wall, now destroyed, which led to a small lobby equipped with a murder hole overhead; a grim reminder of how unwelcome visitors might be greeted. The lobby still shows traces of wicker-centring in its roof construction. From here, defenders could access a guardroom bristling with gun loops to the northeast, whilst a spiral staircase to the southeast provided access to the upper floors. The main ground floor chamber lies beyond the lobby, though its doorway has been broken out over the centuries.

The upper floors follow a consistent pattern, each containing a main chamber with a smaller subsidiary room positioned above the entrance lobby. A barrel vault running northwest to southeast covers the first floor main chamber, with two additional floors built above it. The tower’s domestic arrangements are still evident: fireplaces occupy the centre of the northeast wall on the second and third floors, whilst garderobe chambers built into the southern end of the northwest wall on the third and fourth floors empty through a double chute on the exterior, similar to one found at Rathcline tower house. Despite centuries of weathering, lime plaster survives in the large window embrasures on the second floor, though most windows have been broken out save for one simple rectangular opening. A small chimney stack still protrudes above the walls, whilst traces of a machicolation survive over the doorway at fourth floor level. The entire tower house sits within the northwest section of a larger bawn, or fortified enclosure, testament to its role as both home and fortress.