Set into its coursed ashlar facade are three niches, two of which hold busts of men dressed in late seventeenth-century style. According to the owner, the figures represent Oliver Cromwell and William of Orange, an unlikely pairing given that the two men never overlapped in life, Cromwell having died in 1658 and William not arriving in Ireland until 1690. Whatever the original intent, their presence lends the approach to the house a quietly odd atmosphere, somewhere between commemoration and curiosity.

The house itself is a composed and carefully detailed piece of late Georgian design. Two storeys over a basement, it presents a three-bay entrance front to the northeast, with ashlar limestone quoins and a central pedimented breakfront, the triangular gable above the central bay, pierced by an oculus, a small circular window. The doorway is generous and formally dressed: a wide round-headed opening reached by stone steps, with a fanlight and sidelights fitted with astragals, the thin glazing bars that divide a window into smaller panes, all framed by rusticated ashlar pillars. The door itself, riveted timber with diamond panels and large L-shaped hinges, is said to have been brought from a nearby castle. The northwest elevation takes a more practical turn, weatherslated against the Cork weather and fitted with a broad single-storey porch, set slightly off-centre in a way that suggests it was added as an afterthought. Inside, a curved cantilevered staircase rises through the centre of the house, lit from above by an overhead light. The 1842 Ordnance Survey six-inch map shows a short extension to the rear; later maps from 1902 and 1936 record a longer one. Neither survives.

The farm buildings to the northwest add another layer of architectural ambition. Arranged in a long U-shape, they are anchored by a curved ashlar limestone gable topped with a bellcote, a small bell-housing of the kind more usually seen on a chapel than an agricultural range. Two niches in the farm buildings contain busts similar to those at the ruined lodge. The entrance piers to the whole ensemble are finished with eagles perched on balls, a detail that sits somewhere between estate grandeur and mild eccentricity, and rather sets the tone for the place as a whole.