The residence, built around 1850 with late 19th/early 20th century additions and alterations, is a one-and-a-half-story three-bay double-pile house with transitional Federal/Greek Revival details. It features include paired exterior end chimneys laid in Flemish bond, gable-roof, six-over-six sash windows, small central gable with an arched ventilator, hip-roof porch with Tuscan columns, crude one-story ell, two broad post-and-lintel mantels in the main western rooms, early Victorian sawn mantels in the eastern first-floor rooms, and an enclosed straight-flight stair. More information about this photograph can be found on page 326 of the book The Architectural Heritage of Chatham County, North Carolina written by Rachel Osborn and Ruth Selden-Sturgill.