What makes it unusual is not simply its state of abandonment, but the way two distinct building campaigns are legible in the fabric of a single structure, a Georgian country house that was substantially remodelled in a Gothic Revival manner roughly forty years after it was first raised.

The core of the building dates to around 1780, when it was constructed as a two-storey over basement double-pile house, meaning it has two parallel ranges of rooms running front to back, giving it considerable depth as well as width. The central block runs to nine bays across the front elevation. Around 1820, the house was renovated and the character of it shifted noticeably: two-bay towers were added to terminate each end, equipped with crenellated parapets, quatrefoil openings, and carved stone pinnacles at the corners, all of which belong to the castellated Gothic vocabulary fashionable among the Irish gentry of that period. The main entrance received a pointed arch doorcase of carved limestone, flanked by clustered columns and finished above with an ogee detail and decorative pinnacle. Curiously, the upper windows on the north elevation incorporate moulded heads and jambs of what appears to be genuine medieval limestone work, one of them with vegetal carving, suggesting that earlier stonework was deliberately incorporated into the renovation. No window frames survive anywhere in the building today, and the rendered rubble limestone walls stand open to the sky.