What makes it immediately curious is that the facade is not symmetrical in any tidy domestic sense; the doorway sits off-centre to the left, and two of the six bays on the right side once served as a dairy, with their own window and door still visible, now absorbed into the broader structure of the house.

Vernacular architecture of this kind, built without architects or pattern books and shaped instead by local materials and agricultural necessity, was once widespread across Munster. The house is T-shaped in plan, a form that allowed for functional additions without requiring an entirely new build, and its hipped roof, where the roof slopes down on all four sides rather than ending in a gable, is covered with thatch. A single-roomed extension projects to the rear. Two brick chimneys, positioned off-centre to the left and right, suggest the heating arrangements were practical rather than symmetrical. The incorporation of a former dairy within the same roofline as the dwelling proper is a reminder of how closely domestic and agricultural spaces were intertwined in Cork farmsteads, often sharing walls and occasionally entrances. The house remains occupied, which is no small thing for a thatched structure of this character.