A limestone mantelpiece, roughly 1.2 metres across, carries two rectangular panels inscribed with Latin text that a nineteenth-century historian described as three pious proverbs. Nearby are fragments of a limestone door arch. Above them, still standing to around six metres, is a stone chimney stack close to the spot where the house's south-west corner once was. The walls themselves are mostly rubble, though the east wall survives to fourteen metres, preserving three original windows, one at ground floor and two above. The best-preserved of these, at first-floor level on the southern end, is now blocked up but its form is still legible: a rectangular light divided by three mullions and a transom and finished with a hood-moulding, a combination characteristic of early seventeenth-century construction. Traces of the original red brick lining the interior walls add another small note of distinction to what was evidently a house of some ambition.

The Crofton family took possession of Templehouse shortly before 1627, the year recorded on a carved stone that once sat above the hall door alongside their family crest and motto, 'the generation of the righteous shall be blessed'. That stone, noted by the historian O'Rorke in 1878, is no longer visible. The house the Croftons built did not remain peaceful for long. In 1641, during the uprising that convulsed much of Ireland, the complex became a refuge for local Protestant families caught up in the violence, a moment that placed an otherwise domestic building briefly at the centre of one of the more turbulent episodes of seventeenth-century Irish history. A later phase of rebuilding in the nineteenth century absorbed much of the original structure into a farmyard complex, which accounts for the layered and fragmentary character of what remains today.