The isolation is the first thing that strikes archaeologist Tony Miller, who recorded the site, noting that the structures are "quite unusual for being sited in such an out of the way place, a long walk from any other inhabited areas." Built only around two metres from the stream bank and running roughly parallel to it, the pair of conjoined dry-stone houses seem almost deliberately secluded, their purpose and date still unresolved.

The two buildings were not raised at the same time. The eastern section came first, a compact rectangular structure measuring approximately 3.6 metres east to west and 2.6 metres north to south, with a narrow doorway of around 0.8 metres set centrally in the south wall. Dry-stone construction, where stones are carefully laid without mortar and rely on their own weight and fit for stability, is common across Irish uplands, but Miller notes the quality here is particularly careful. Beneath this older building there may be the ghost of an even earlier hut, though the evidence is faint. The western section was added later, slightly larger at roughly 3.8 by 3.1 metres, with its entrance placed on the east side of the south wall, butting directly against the earlier structure. At some point after the western gable collapsed, someone inserted a rough dividing wall across the ruined end, likely to pen animals. That small, pragmatic alteration, a neat partition thrown up inside a derelict dwelling, says something about the long, layered afterlife of buildings in remote places. By the time Miller visited, the collapsed wall material was deeply overgrown with turf and heather, the western section still standing to a maximum height of around 1.6 metres. Immediately across the stream, a separate hut site recorded as CO104-043 sits in close proximity, suggesting this small corner of Rougham was once, for reasons now difficult to recover, worth the considerable effort of reaching.