Its precise outline survives only because a cartographer thought to record it, and that record is now the sole reason we know it existed at all.

White's map, drawn around 1710 to 1711, shows a house on the eastern side of the lane leading to Gowran Castle. Though the map itself is early eighteenth century in date, the building it depicts is thought to have originated at least as far back as the seventeenth century. It sat on the south side of Main Street, tucked along a route that would have connected the town to the castle grounds. Nothing of it survives above ground today, and without White's survey it would have vanished from the record entirely. What the building was used for, and by whom, is not recorded, but its position along the approach to a significant Anglo-Norman castle suggests it was part of the organised domestic and administrative landscape of the demesne rather than an incidental structure.