The structure is modest in scale, roughly 5.6 metres in diameter, and built using drystone technique, meaning the walls were assembled without mortar, relying entirely on the careful fitting of stone against stone. Those walls have largely fallen, now reading as a low spread of rubble no more than 0.3 metres high, though they are best preserved along the southern to north-eastern arc. At the north-east to east side, two flat stone slabs set side by side still hold their curve, a small detail that gives a sense of how the whole once looked.

What makes the site quietly ingenious is the way its builders accommodated the hillside rather than fighting it. Rather than levelling the ground entirely, they cut the south-eastern portion of the interior into the slope to a depth of 0.7 metres, while the north-western portion sits on raised ground 0.9 metres above the cut floor. The result is a roughly level living space carved from the gradient itself. A break in the wall on the eastern side may mark where the entrance once stood, a practical choice given the orientation. Immediately to the east, a relict wall survives as part of a broader network of old field boundaries, suggesting this hut was not a solitary feature but once sat within a worked and organised landscape, now long abandoned to the rough pasture that surrounds it.