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Detached five-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1820 and extended and altered c.1920, having single-storey addition (or former bed outshot) to rear (north). Currently out of use (2015). Pitched artificial slate roof with projecting eaves course, some surviving sections of cast-iron rainwater, and with three smooth-rendered chimneystacks (to gable ends and middle). Raised cement-rendered verge to west gable end. Smooth-rendered ruled-and-lined walls with raised smooth-rendered block quoins to corners. Plaque to east end of front elevation (south) with text "Home of Patrick MacGill, Navvy Poet (1889-1963)". Square-headed window openings with smooth-rendered reveals and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed doorway with smooth-rendered reveal and battened timber door. Set back from road in own grounds on southern slopes of An Cnoc Mór [Crockmore]. Yard to front (south) and ruinous single-storey outbuilding to rear with having pitched corrugated-iron roof, rubble stone walls, and square-headed openings.
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