The door is off-centre, shifted to the left rather than occupying the middle of the four-bay facade, and the chimney echoes that asymmetry, also leaning left of centre. It is a small detail, but it gives the building a quiet personality that the tidier conventions of formal architecture would never permit.

Vernacular houses of this type, built by and for ordinary rural households rather than designed by architects or patrons, followed practical logic rather than aesthetic symmetry. The off-centre door with its projecting surround, a simple framing that gave a little weather protection and a sense of formality to the entrance, and the hipped roof, where all four sides slope downward rather than ending in a gable, are both features common to surviving traditional Irish farmhouses. The thatch survives here, as does a second one-storey vernacular house immediately to the south, suggesting this was once a small cluster of related rural buildings rather than an isolated dwelling.