That the house was under construction during the opening phase of the Great Famine lends the stonework an unspoken weight that no architectural survey can quite capture.

The house itself is built in a manner typical of middling rural prosperity in early Victorian Ireland: random-rubble walls, which means the stone was laid without being cut to uniform courses, given a more respectable face through dressed limestone quoins at the corners. The southeast-facing front presents three bays, with a central doorway flanked by engaged Ionic columns, columns that are attached to the wall rather than free-standing, supporting a fanlight above. Sash windows with glazing bars and limestone sills run to either side. The roof is hipped slate with slightly projecting eaves and two off-centre chimneys of cut stone. Around the back, a round-headed window marks the stairway, and two single-storey gabled projections extend from the northeast side, the kind of practical additions that suggest the house was meant to be lived in and worked from rather than simply displayed.