It is easy to miss: the walls have long since collapsed, the stones are grassed over into low mounds, and a scatter of loose rubble has drifted downhill over the years. But the dimensions are still legible on the ground, roughly 2.8 metres north to south and 2.2 metres east to west, about the footprint of a large garden shed. Someone lived here, or sheltered here, in a structure just big enough to be considered a room.

The site sits within a wider field system on the hillside, which places it in a landscape that was once more actively managed than it appears today. The hut was built using drystone construction, a technique requiring no mortar, in which carefully selected and stacked stones rely on their own weight and fit to hold together. Where the wall meets the upslope to the north, the builders cut roughly 0.6 metres into the hill itself, using the natural gradient to provide both stability and shelter. This kind of cut-into-slope construction is a practical response to exposed upland terrain, reducing the height of walling required on the uphill side while creating a degree of insulation and wind protection. The wall survives to about 0.2 metres on the north-to-south axis, where it is most intact, and to only 0.1 metres elsewhere, little more than a grassed ridge of buried stone.