It is the kind of inscription that builders sometimes left when they finished a job, unremarkable in itself, yet now it anchors the whole silent complex to a particular family and a particular moment, shortly before the Famine years that would hollow out so much of rural Ireland.

The house is a two-storey structure over a basement, rectangular in plan, and its eastern entrance front carries the formal language of Georgian and early Victorian design with some confidence. A two-bay central breakfront projects from the six-bay facade, its lower section open and supported by four Ionic columns, the capitals of which have the characteristic scroll-shaped volutes of that classical order. This portico shelters a vertical half door with flanking sidelights, and above it a pediment contains a carved armorial plaque, the heraldic device of the Leader family. A brick string course runs along the front and side elevations between the ground and first floors, a thin horizontal band that gives the facade a slight sharpness. The rear is plainer but not without interest: five bays, a gabled addition on the south side, and a tall central window with a pointed arch that sits a little unexpectedly against the otherwise classicised building.

Behind the house, ranges of two-storey farm buildings complete the abandoned ensemble. One range has diamond-shaped first-floor windows, a decorative touch unusual in agricultural buildings of this type, and another carries a bellcote, the small masonry structure designed to hold a bell for summoning workers. Most distinctive are the circular stone-built corn stands to the rear, raised platforms that kept grain stores clear of the ground and away from damp and vermin. Similar corn stands survive at Coolmore near Carrigaline, suggesting a regional tradition in their construction that this property shared.