These are small losses and small survivals, but they tell you something about how an eighteenth-century Cork house can quietly accumulate change while still holding its original shape.

The house at Ballindinis is a two-storey structure of seven bays, with a three-bay central breakfront that would originally have been capped by the now-absent pediment. A string course, the horizontal band of moulding that marks the division between floors, runs across the facade, and a stone cornice sits at the eaves below a hipped roof. The whole building is only one bay deep, which gives it an almost scenographic quality from the front, as though it presents itself fully and holds little back. A basement sits beneath, invisible from outside. On the west elevation, sash windows survive with their original glazing bars and shallow reveals, details that are increasingly rare and worth noting. To the rear, gabled additions flank a shorter lean-to, the kind of incremental domestic archaeology that accumulates over generations of use. A walled garden lies to the north, a feature common to houses of this period and class, where kitchen gardens were enclosed against wind and animals and also served as a way of signalling a degree of order over the surrounding landscape.