What was once visible in the gable, a two-light window fitted with window bars, a feature consistent with the defensive domestic architecture of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, has since been swallowed by a later extension. The window is still there, presumably, but no longer visible; the addition built against the structure has simply absorbed it from view.

The building was noted as ancient as far back as 1936, when Lyons recorded it in that term, a description that points to the structure having retained some recognisable antiquity even at that relatively late date of observation. Holland, writing in 1992, was still able to document the two-light window in the gable before the extension obscured it. A two-light window, meaning one divided by a central stone mullion into two openings, with iron bars across it, would have been a practical feature in a period when rural buildings needed to balance light with security. The Burgagery-Lands area of Tipperary takes its name from the medieval burgages, plots of land attached to a town or borough and held under a specific tenure, which gives some sense of the long-settled, organised landscape in which this structure sits. The building occupies the widest section of Collet's Lane, a detail that suggests it may have had some local prominence in the layout of that thoroughfare, though the extension that now obscures its most legible historical feature has complicated any straightforward reading of what remains.