It is not much to look at now, just fragmentary traces of earth and stone pressed almost flush with the ground, but the dimensions recorded when it was still legible suggest a dwelling roughly four and a half metres across, small enough to feel intimate, large enough to have been someone's home.

The antiquarian T. J. Westropp documented the structure in 1911, noting it as a single circular hut at the northern end of the fort, occupying what would have been the most elevated and commanding position within the enclosure. He found the walls, built in the typical manner of the period with a mixture of earth and stone, surviving to just under a foot in height. That it was part of a wider settlement is clear; Westropp recorded several other house sites within the same promontory fort, each sharing the same construction method and the same reduced state of preservation. A promontory fort is exactly what the name suggests, a defensive enclosure built on a headland or coastal spur, using the natural drop of the land on most sides and a constructed bank or wall to close off the accessible approach. The combination of natural advantage and internal domestic structures points to a community making considered use of the landscape, though when exactly they did so remains uncertain.