The combination of a working house and a rest point for travellers gives it a dual character that domestic architecture alone rarely carries.

The building itself is believed to date to the eighteenth century and was originally associated with the Orpen family, a name with wide Anglo-Irish connections across Munster. The front elevation faces north across the valley and presents five bays, with a two-storey gabled projection set slightly off-centre to the right, giving the facade an asymmetry that feels considered rather than accidental. A large chimney sits off-centre to the right of the gable end, and the rear of the house has three bays with dormer windows breaking the roofline on the first floor. A lean-to extension runs off the eastern end, and a range of lofted outhouses, the kind of working agricultural ancillary buildings common to Irish country houses of this period, adjoins the front at right angles to the western end. The setting remains pasture and woodland, which preserves something of the atmosphere the coaches and their passengers would have known, looking out over the Roughty River below.