The Crofts family built that newer house in 1875, presumably intending it to supersede the older one entirely. Twenty years later, in 1895, it burnt down, and the family simply moved back into the mid-18th-century house they had presumably vacated not long before.

The older house they returned to is a composed, symmetrical structure of five bays, with the kind of restrained detailing that characterises Georgian domestic architecture in rural Ireland: cut-limestone surrounds on the windows, moulded sills and lintels, and a cut-stone cornice running along the eaves. The main entrance, facing south-west, has a central rectangular door opening with a limestone surround, though it is now concealed behind a modern porch. Behind the symmetry of the entrance front, the building becomes more pragmatic in its layout. A central gabled stairway projection breaks out from the rear, with a lean-to addition on one side and a longer gabled addition on the other, pulling the whole ground plan into an L-shape. Farm buildings occupy the area beyond. The formality of the front and the accumulated additions of the back are, in that sense, a fairly honest record of a working house that has been continuously adapted rather than preserved as a set piece. A private burial ground lies roughly 500 metres to the south, adding one more quiet layer to a site that has clearly accumulated a great deal of history without advertising any of it.