Its walls still hold the stone sockets where timber floor beams once rested, cupboard recesses cut neatly into the gables, and, in the south wall, a pair of mullioned windows whose central uprights carry small stone hooks and ridges that appear to have been part of a mechanism for holding timber shutters closed. It is a detail easy to walk past, and quietly remarkable: domestic hardware rendered in stone, preserved simply because stone outlasts everything else.

The friary itself was founded in the fifteenth century, and following the Dissolution of the Monasteries the property was confiscated by the English Crown. The friars lost ownership, and what had been a religious complex was gradually converted to secular use. The refectory gained a baking oven inserted into the south end of its west wall; the kitchen in the north range was repurposed too. At some point after this transition, a private house was built directly onto the friary's existing fabric. According to O'Hara, writing in 1898, the builder was a man named James Knox, though exactly when he built it is not recorded. The stone used in its construction is said to have come from the friary's own ruined buildings, which gives the house an odd recursive quality: a domestic dwelling assembled from the wreckage of the institution it replaced, and bolted to what remained standing. The house measures just over fourteen metres east to west and a little over five metres north to south. A corridor in the west wall connects it to the friary proper, running alongside what was probably the friary garderobe, a medieval latrine structure built over a stream; stone steps in the corridor's north wall once gave access to that stream below.

The upper floor was divided into two rooms, each with its own fireplace in the opposing gables. The western fireplace is the more considered piece of work, its projecting hood carved with shallow wavy lines and supported on two corbels. A doorway beside it opens onto the upper level of the corridor building, maintaining the connection to the friary at both storeys. With the roof long gone and the window frames largely missing, the house reads now as a kind of outline, but enough survives in the stonework to trace the logic of how someone once arranged their life inside it.