This was Roxborough, the childhood home of Lady Gregory, the playwright, folklorist, and co-founder of the Abbey Theatre whose friendships with W.B. Yeats and J.M. Synge shaped the Irish Literary Revival at the turn of the twentieth century.

Architect and country houses historian Mark Bence-Jones described the building in 1978 as an 18th-century house of two storeys over a basement, with a gable-ended front and a gable-ended return. The façade ran to five bays and featured a fanlighted doorway, the fanlight being a semi-circular or geometric glazed window above the entrance that was a common decorative feature of Georgian domestic architecture in Ireland. The house was burnt in 1922, during the period of widespread destruction of Anglo-Irish country houses that accompanied the Civil War and its immediate aftermath. It was not rebuilt, and only the ruins remain on the site today.