While the facade remains austere, the interior is stunning with its sumptuous Baroque revival architecture.

Baroque Revival architecture (revival of Baroque architecture)

Although his early work was Gothic, Edis later became a proponent of the Queen Anne Style of baroque revival architecture.

Like Carr's work Ware's was sympathetic with the Palladian style of the house, providing an early example of the "Kent Revival", a particularly English prefiguration of Baroque Revival architecture.

The building was sold to the Cork council Hjalmar Wicander in 1898 and he commissioned architect Carl Möller to remodel the house to its present appearance of a Baroque Revival architecture with Art Nouveau decor considered fashion at the time.