It is the kind of building that looks, at a glance, as though it is trying to be a castle without quite committing to the idea. The tower contains a stone spiral staircase and features at least one window with an ogee head, a late-medieval decorative form in which the arch curves into a shallow S-shape, an unusual flourish on what is otherwise an early nineteenth-century domestic structure.

By 1842, the Ordnance Survey six-inch map recorded the house under the name River View, a straightforwardly descriptive title given its southward outlook over the river valley. A century later, the 1942 edition of the same map marks it already as ruins. The building was burnt in the 1920s, a fate it shared with a considerable number of country houses across Ireland during that turbulent decade, when such properties became frequent targets during the War of Independence and the Civil War that followed. Whatever the precise circumstances of its destruction, the shell that remained was sufficiently intact for its architectural character to survive: the projecting tower is mirrored by a similar projection to the rear, suggesting a symmetrical formal plan that the irregular window placement on the entrance front somewhat contradicts.