The house appears incidentally, in the foreground of a plate depicting the better-known Burncourt fortified house nearby, and only its upper storey is visible above the frame of the image. It is a fleeting, accidental document of a building that has since entirely disappeared.

What the Grose illustration does show is enough to sketch a rough portrait. The house appears to have been a two-storey structure with a dormer attic, a configuration common among modestly substantial rural residences of the period. Its front façade was likely west-facing and ran to five bays, with three dormer windows punctuating the roofline and heavy gable-ended chimney stacks giving it a solid, grounded profile. Nothing of this building now remains on the ground. The site has been absorbed into farm buildings, leaving the 1791 engraving as the sole evidence that the house existed at all. Grose, an antiquary who toured Ireland in the late eighteenth century documenting monuments and ruins, was not recording this house deliberately; it simply happened to be standing behind his subject when the scene was sketched.