What makes it worth pausing over is not its size, which is modest at roughly 4.2 metres east to west and just over 2 metres north to south, but the way it was built. The western wall makes use of natural outcropping rock, while the remaining sides were constructed in drystone, a method of stacking stone without mortar. The lower courses use large stones for stability, and a narrow entrance, just 0.6 metres wide, opens to the north.

The site does not stand alone. Around 36 metres to the south-east there is a second hut site and a standing stone, suggesting this corner of rough hill pasture was once more purposefully occupied than it appears today. Perhaps most telling is a charcoal-making site located about 25 metres to the south-east. Charcoal production was a labour-intensive process requiring a sustained and managed source of timber, and its proximity to the huts implies some form of organised activity in the area rather than purely seasonal grazing. Whether the huts and the charcoal site were in use simultaneously, or represent different periods of activity on the same hillside, is not something the physical remains alone can answer.

The site sits in rough hill pasture, so the ground underfoot is uneven and the walls are low enough to be easy to miss if you are not looking carefully. The rubble scattered to the south of the entrance is part of the structure itself, not random field clearance, and it gives a sense of how the walls once stood before time and weather began to pull them apart.