The hut itself is modest even by the standards of such sites: roughly 3.2 metres north to south and 2.2 metres east to west, barely large enough to shelter a person and their most essential belongings. What gives it a quietly arresting quality is the way it was constructed to account for the hillside beneath it. The east wall, facing downslope, was built up from the ground using uncoursed rubble stonework, creating a kind of rough revetment so that the interior floor could be kept level. That simple practical decision is still legible in the landscape today.

The structure sits within a network of relict field boundaries, meaning the faint outlines of former agricultural divisions that have been abandoned and slowly reclaimed by rough hill pasture and peat. A north-south stretch of one of these old walls runs immediately to the east of the hut. Together, the hut and the surrounding field remains suggest a pattern of land use that was once organised and purposeful, even if the period and the people behind it are no longer easily pinned down. Some stones have since gone missing from the east wall, and loose rubble has tumbled downslope and been gradually buried under peaty soil, but the bank defining the north, south, and west sides of the structure survives, in places reaching 0.55 metres in height.