The residence is a two-story three-bay frame house with a vernacular Federal exterior and Georgian-style interior. It has nine-over-nine double-hung sash windows, boxed cornice with patternboard, two exterior stone chimneys with brick stacks, shed-roof front porch with turned posts, and an interior hall-parlor plan. More information about these photographs can be found on page 248-249 of the book The Architectural Heritage of Chatham County, North Carolina written by Rachel Osborn and Ruth Selden-Sturgill.