The original late eighteenth or early nineteenth-century house still stands, but only just, and only at the back. Walk around to the western elevation and you encounter a five-bay, two-storey facade over a basement, gable-ended with chimneys sitting atop the gables, extensions pushing out at either end, one of them topped by a massive chimney stack, the other finished with a hipped roof and a two-storey bay window. It is a substantial and coherent composition. Then you circle to the east, and the original house more or less disappears behind a confident Victorian facade that was plastered over it in 1871.

That 1871 addition was the work of a builder or architect recorded as Webb, cited by the Cork antiquarian J.H. Grove White in his county history compiled between 1905 and 1925. The new front elevation is seven bays wide, two storeys over a basement, and Webb applied the full vocabulary of Victorian decorative plasterwork: heavy window surrounds, a parapet, quoins, a string course, and channelled rustication at ground-floor level, a technique in which the plaster is scored to suggest large blocks of stone. A central porch opens the entrance, with a tripartite window above it and round-headed windows across the ground floor. The side elevations are only one bay deep, which underlines just how much the new front was conceived as a screen, a new face grafted onto an older body rather than a coherent rebuild. The original entrance front, along with its extensions, is now hidden almost entirely behind this layer of Victorian ambition.

The ruin preserves this layering with a certain accidental clarity. With the roof and interior gone, the relationship between the earlier house and its 1871 wrapper becomes easier to read from the outside than it would ever have been when the building was intact and functioning. The massive chimney stack on the northern gable extension is particularly visible, a reminder that the original house was already a complex structure before Webb arrived to reface it.