It is a small discrepancy, but the kind that rewards attention, because it points to a building that has been observed closely enough for the difference to matter.

The house is a five-bay structure, meaning it has five evenly spaced openings across its front facade, with a central porch facing south-east. A small single-bay extension sits at the back of the north side. The sash windows along the front, in which the glazed panels slide vertically within a frame, are a detail associated with Georgian and Victorian domestic architecture across Ireland, though the two outermost ones are now missing. Ivy has taken hold across parts of the exterior, and the roof has been re-covered at some point with corrugated asbestos sheeting, a mid-twentieth-century material that became common on farm buildings and older rural houses when original slates or tiles needed replacing. A farmyard and several adjoining buildings lie to the north-west. The house sits on elevated ground overlooking both a nearby tower house known as Fortane Castle and Castle Lough, the lake sitting quietly to the north-west below the hill. Hugh Weir, writing in 1986, recorded both the external appearance and the interior of the building, and his account remains a point of reference, even where the physical evidence has since diverged from his illustration.