The front face, oriented west, stretches across four bays, with the door placed not at the centre but to the left, and a chimney rising off-centre to the right. These small departures from symmetry are not accidents or afterthoughts; they reflect the organic way such houses grew around the practical needs of the people who built and lived in them, rather than any formal architectural plan.

The house was recorded as carrying a hipped roof with thatch, a roofing style in which all sides slope downward to the eaves rather than meeting at a gabled end, which gave better resistance to the wind in exposed rural settings. A modern addition had been made to the rear at some point, a common story in Irish vernacular buildings where successive generations quietly extended the original structure. What makes this particular house a poignant example of its type is what happened after it was first formally noted: the roof collapsed. It joins a long list of thatched vernacular houses across Ireland that have disappeared, partially or entirely, in the decades since such buildings ceased to be maintained as working homes.