What makes it quietly remarkable is how little it seems to have changed in outline since the mid-nineteenth century. Several of the houses standing today correspond directly to buildings recorded on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1842, giving the cluster an unusual degree of continuity with its early Victorian form.

The houses themselves are modest and consistent in character: all single-storey, many thatched or formerly thatched, with hipped roofs rather than the gabled ends more common elsewhere. A hipped roof, where all four sides slope down to the eaves, was a practical vernacular choice in exposed coastal locations, offering less resistance to wind and rain. The façades run to three, four, or five bays, typically arranged symmetrically around a central doorway, a layout that reflects the standard rural house type of the period across much of Munster. Local memory preserves a picture of a village that once had considerably more commercial life than it does today, with three shops and two public houses operating at some point in the past. Of those, one public house survives.