Two chamfered jamb stones, their angled edges originally designed to ease the transition of a doorway or window opening, were later reused in a 19th-century doorway nearby. These stones are likely all that physically survives of an earlier house on the same ground, absorbed or displaced when the building was rebuilt or expanded.

The site sits in level pasture roughly 80 metres north of the River Inny, and its history was already layered by the time a local observer, Nicholas Dowdall, wrote about it in 1682. He recorded it under the name Tineleeke, which he translated as "the House of Broad Stone", and noted that it had formerly held an old castle. By his time the estate belonged to a John Sankey, whose father Henry Sankey had, as Dowdall put it, "much improve & built a large house on it". The two-storey, L-shaped structure standing today appears to date from the early 18th century, possibly constructed on the footprint of Henry Sankey's improvements or incorporating parts of them. Earthworks survive in the field to the north-west of the house, and what may have been a deer park, a common feature of prosperous gentry estates of the period, is associated with the wider complex. The deer park, typically an enclosed landscape managed for hunting, would suggest the Sankeys were making deliberate claims to status as much as to comfort.