What makes it worth a second look is the way it was built: whoever constructed this small dwelling did not start from scratch. They identified a natural shelf of rock outcrop in the hillside and used it as a ready-made foundation and back wall, reducing the labour of construction by working with the terrain rather than against it. It is a modest piece of practical thinking, visible still in the way the site sits so snugly against the slope.

The structure is roughly sub-circular in plan, measuring approximately 7.5 metres east to west and 6.5 metres north to south. Its southern, western, and northern sides are defined by a low drystone wall, the kind of construction technique in which stones are laid without mortar and rely on careful placement for their stability. That wall survives to an internal height of just 0.15 metres, though the exterior face still stands to around 0.55 metres, giving some sense of what once enclosed the space. To the north and north-east, a natural rock scarp takes over from the built wall, rising to 1.7 metres, while a much lower scarp edges the eastern and south-eastern side. The interior is level, covered now in grass and rushes, with a holly tree growing near the northern end. The site has not escaped entirely undamaged: a modern land drain cuts through the eastern sector, entering from the south-east and exiting at the north-east, truncating that side of the feature in a way that makes reading the full original outline more difficult.