The structure is small, just 2.6 metres north to south and 1.6 metres east to west, and what survives is only the lowest course of a stone wall, protruding perhaps 0.3 metres above the surrounding ground. On the north-west to south-east side, even that much has largely disappeared under grass. It is the kind of site that rewards slow looking rather than a quick glance, and it is easy to walk past without registering it at all.

The site sits in rough hill pasture to the east of a northward-flowing stream, a setting that would have offered basic practical necessities: water nearby, some shelter from prevailing winds by virtue of the slope, and access to upland grazing. The bog that now partly swallows the walls has, in one sense, preserved them, holding the lower courses in place even as the upper structure long since collapsed or was removed. Seven metres to the south-west, a second hut site of the same general type survives, suggesting this was not a solitary dwelling but part of a small cluster of activity on the mountain. Whether these structures relate to seasonal farming, transhumance (the practice of moving livestock to higher ground in summer), or some other use is not recorded, but their pairing on the hillside implies a degree of deliberate organisation rather than isolated occupation.