The quoinstones, those corner blocks of stone that give Georgian buildings their sense of solidity and precision, are here rendered in fake plaster, and the portico fronting the doorway adopts a Greek Revival idiom that sits somewhat awkwardly against the much older bones of the building behind it. A flat-headed Venetian doorway, a form popular in early eighteenth-century Irish domestic architecture, has been dressed up with later ornament that belongs to a different era and a different aesthetic entirely.

The house itself is a five-bay, two-storey structure, oriented on a northeast to southwest axis and sitting on a gentle rise in quietly rolling North Tipperary countryside. Its origins are early eighteenth century, and in plan it follows a type common to prosperous rural houses of that period: gabled ends, a straightforward rectangular footprint, and a projecting stair tower at the rear, set away from the main public face of the building. That stair tower is a practical feature, tucking the vertical circulation out of sight and leaving the principal rooms uninterrupted. The recent restoration work preserved the essential structure while adding the Greek-style portico and the rendered quoinstones to the south front, changes that layer a nineteenth-century sensibility onto an eighteenth-century frame in ways that raise more questions than they answer about what was valued, and what was thought to need improving.