The building dates from the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century, and the care put into its entrance front suggests it was once a household of some social ambition, even if not a grand one.

The southern facade is five bays wide, a formal arrangement that was a reliable marker of respectability in Georgian domestic architecture. At its centre sits a wide doorway fitted with a vertical half door, a practical Irish adaptation that allowed light and air in while keeping animals out, flanked by sidelights and crowned by a segmental fanlight, the shallow arched glazed panel above the door that was a common decorative flourish of the period. The hipped roof, where the slopes meet at all four corners rather than ending in gables, projects at the eaves in a way that gives the facade a composed, horizontal quality. Behind the main block, a hipped two-storey addition was built to the rear, suggesting the household expanded at some point, or that the original plan was always intended to grow. The whole structure is two bays deep, so despite its composed front, it was never a large house. It belongs to a category of building found across Cork and the wider south of Ireland: the middling rural house, solid enough to signal permanence, modest enough to avoid grandeur, and now, in its abandonment, quietly eloquent about whatever changed for the family or tenancy that once kept it.