What distinguishes it is not scale but a particular compositional choice: the entrance front, facing west across five bays, is anchored at each end by a deep, hipped projection, each one a single bay wide and rising to two storeys. The effect is something between a compact manor and a more formal house that never quite completed its ambitions, the projections giving the facade a solidity that a plain rectangular block would have lacked.

The house belongs to a recognisable tradition of Georgian domestic building in Munster, where local limestone was the natural material for both structural and decorative work. Here, cut limestone frames the central doorway, which is round-headed, a form popular through much of the eighteenth century as a way of lending a degree of classical dignity to a country entrance. The doorway retains a vertical half door, the kind of divided door, split horizontally so that the upper half can be left open independently of the lower, that was a functional fixture of Irish rural and domestic life. Limestone piers mark the entrance to the property, giving the approach a formal character even if the house itself is relatively modest in scale.