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Detached three-bay single-storey with attic level former gate lodge on L-shaped plan, built c.1840, having an advanced gable-fronted bay to the west end of the front façade (south) with a canted bay window and with a single-storey flat-roofed entrance porch to the centre of the front façade having a crenellated parapet over. Modern flat-roofed extension to the east. Originally served Durrow Abbey, Co. Offaly (14909010), now in use as a private house. Steeply pitched natural slate roof with a pair of a cut limestone chimneystacks (on octagonal plan) to the centre and raised cut stone verges to the gable ends. Cut stone kneeler stones and fractables to eaves. Constructed of coursed tooled limestone with extensive cut limestone detailing throughout. Square-headed window openings with cut limestone surrounds, cut limestone mullions and leaded multi-pane windows. Tudor-arched doorcase to front face of porch (south), with moulded limestone surrounds, timber door and with a hoodmoulding over. Set back from road in own grounds at west end of avenue to Durrow Abbey House, Co. Offaly (14909010). Bounded on roadside by a random rubble limestone boundary wall with crenellated coping over. Entrance gates to the south of the house, comprising a pair of rubble limestone gate piers (on circular-plan with cut limestone capstones over) supporting a modern gate. Located to the south of Tyrrellspass, adjacent to border with Co. Offaly.
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