What makes the loss particularly sharp is how clearly the building can be reconstructed in the mind. It was an early to mid-eighteenth century, two-storey structure built in a T-shape over a basement, with an entrance front of seven bays facing east. The centrepiece was a wide breakfront carrying a baseless pediment, a pediment being the low triangular gable form borrowed from classical architecture, here unusual for lacking the standard moulded base course that would normally define its lower edge. Below it, steps rose over the basement to a generous door flanked by decoratively glazed sidelights and crowned by a fanlight. A lunette, a small semicircular window, sat in the pediment above. At the rear, a central hipped projection contained a round-headed stairway window, the kind of graceful internal detail that rarely survives in description alone.

The site carries an older layer of history beneath the Georgian façade. The Down Survey, a remarkable mid-seventeenth century mapping project carried out between 1652 and 1656 that sought to record landownership across Ireland following the Cromwellian confiscations, marks a structure described as a castle or house in the vicinity of the later country house. According to Healy (1989), nothing of that earlier building appears to remain. The relationship between the two structures, whether the eighteenth century house was built on or near the footprint of its predecessor, is not recorded, but the sequence suggests continuous occupation of the same ground across at least three centuries, ending abruptly in the 1980s.