Its walls, built in drystone, a technique using no mortar but relying entirely on the careful stacking of stones, survive only to about 0.4 metres in height, grass-covered and easy to mistake for a natural feature of the land. The entrance, on the southern side, is just 0.55 metres wide, narrow enough to give a sense of the scale of whoever once passed through it.

The hut measures 1.9 metres north to south, with a straight northern wall running 2.4 metres east to west. That northern wall is particularly telling: the large stones there are set somewhat haphazardly against a natural scarp, suggesting the builders used the existing slope as a ready-made back wall and worked outward from it. The southern exterior has been built up slightly, raising it about 0.2 metres, which would have levelled the interior floor against the natural incline of the hillside. It is a small but deliberate piece of engineering, fitting the structure to the landscape rather than imposing on it. A second hut site lies immediately to the north, indicating that this was not an isolated shelter but part of a modest cluster of occupation on this stretch of hillside.