Many buildings of its type, a symmetrical five-bay Georgian-influenced facade with sash windows retaining their original glazing bars and a central doorway, can usually be dated to a reasonably narrow window. Here, that window stays shut.

The house runs east to west, with double gable ends and chimneys set onto the gables rather than the ridge, a common arrangement in vernacular Cork building that helped draw heat through the full length of the structure. The eastern gable has been weather-slated, a practical measure in which slate is fixed vertically to an exposed wall face to protect the masonry from wind-driven rain, particularly relevant on a site that looks directly out over the bay. To the north sits a second, longer building, also two storeys and gable-ended, which has at some point been subdivided into three separate residential units. Whether this was a conversion from a single domestic or agricultural use, or whether it was always intended to house more than one household, is not recorded.