The tradition attached to this house holds that when it was built, stones were taken from an ecclesiastical site in the field immediately to the east and incorporated into the new structure. It is the kind of recycling that was entirely commonplace in rural Ireland, where cut stone was too valuable to leave untouched in a ruined building, but it leaves this particular house with a quietly layered character: Georgian domestic architecture wrapped around, quite literally, fragments of an older sacred building.

The house itself is a plain, gable-ended two-storey rectangle, five bays wide on its south-facing entrance front, with a central door set beneath a rectangular fanlight. The first floor is weather-slated, a practical finish that gives the upper storey a slightly different texture from the ground floor, and the first-floor windows are noticeably slimmer than those below, a proportional detail common in houses of this period. On the side elevations, diamond-shaped attic windows introduce an unexpectedly decorative touch. The rear elevation is more irregular in its fenestration, with a central half-door suggesting the working rhythms of a farm household rather than a purely formal residence. The church site to the east, recorded separately, would have been a ruin by the time the house was constructed, and the pointed window surrounds now hidden in the east gable are the most tangible surviving link between the two. That they were plastered over at some point suggests either a later tidying of the facade or simply that their origin had been forgotten.