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Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1820, having bed outshot to rear (west), and with two-storey outbuilding attached to north gable, first floor of latter accessed by flight of external stone steps to east elevation. Now unoccupied. Pitched corrugated-metal roof with one low, rendered chimneystack (towards centre; formerly a second also), and with raised rendered coping to south gable. Stone pegs to walls at eaves level, formerly used to rope original thatched roof; profile of former thatched roof preserved to south gable of outbuilding. Rendered rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings with remains of one-over-one pane and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed doorway, offset to north side of centre, with battened timber door and having section of flagstone paving to front. Fireplace with crane for pots, flagstone floor to interior (not viewed). Outbuilding has pitched Roshine slate roof with raised rendered verges to gables, rendered rubble stone walls, and square-headed battened timber doors. Single-storey outbuilding to north, now ruinous, with pitched roof (possibly thatched), rubble stone walls, and square-headed doorways. Single-bay single-storey lean-to shed attached to south gable. Detached single-storey outbuilding to south with pitched corrugated-metal roof, rendered rubble stone walls and square-headed timber battened door. Set slightly back from road adjacent to Port Mairse [Port Marsh] and overlooking Bá Bhaile an Easa [Ballyness Bay]. Single-arch bridge over stream to south of site.
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