It is the kind of arrangement that archaeologists sometimes call a street, a loose but evocative term for a sequence of adjoining or closely spaced domestic structures that suggest a small, organised community rather than scattered farmsteads. Six buildings make up this group, and the one examined here is among the more quietly revealing of them.

When the structure was excavated in 2000, it turned out to be a rectangular building measuring approximately 7.7 metres long and 3.9 metres wide, with drystone walls, that is, walls built from stacked stone without mortar, around a metre thick, of which two courses of masonry had survived. A doorway in the east wall was present in both phases of the building's life. At some point during its use, a stone wall was inserted across the northern end of the interior, effectively shortening the building by about two metres. The floor in that truncated section eroded badly, and in doing so stripped away not only the primary floor but also the upper surface of occupation material belonging to an even earlier structure beneath. The building was, in other words, layered onto a predecessor, and then modified again from within. The excavator noted that the building's small size and the near absence of occupation debris might indicate it served as an outbuilding connected to the nearby 'Crompeol' settlement, rather than as a dwelling. A short length of gully or slot-trench just to the north-east hints at the outline of yet another structure in the vicinity, so far unexcavated.

The site sits within a landscape that rewards careful attention. The south-east orientation of the slopes would have offered some shelter and light, practical considerations that medieval builders on an Atlantic island understood well. The cluster of platforms, taken together, preserves the faint geometry of a community that left little behind except stone and soil.