It was not built as a family seat or a merchant's retreat, but as a glebe house, the official residence provided for a Church of Ireland rector, which gives it a slightly institutional quality that sits oddly against its domestic architecture. The building is L-shaped and rises two storeys over a basement, with a three-bay entrance front facing east. A central door with a fanlight overhead is reached by a short flight of steps, and the whole thing is finished with a hipped roof, one that slopes on all four sides rather than ending in gable walls, a form common to respectable, unpretentious Georgian building throughout rural Ireland. Stone-built farm buildings extend to the rear, a reminder that a glebe house was as much a working farm as a clergyman's home, since the glebe land attached to a parish living was a significant part of a rector's income.

The house was erected in the 1830s, a period when the Church of Ireland was still the established church and glebes were being tidied up and formalised across the country, though that establishment would be dissolved just a few decades later, in 1869. Brady's 1863 account records the building's existence, so it was already standing and occupied within living memory of its construction. Just to the north of the house lies the site of a church and graveyard, which adds a layer of quiet coherence to the place: the rector's house set close to his church, both now abandoned, the institutional logic of the parish quietly collapsed around them.