The surrounding ground is reedy and wet, but inside the walls the earth remains dry and level, a quality that was almost certainly the whole point when this fold was built.

The structure is sub-circular in plan, measuring roughly 16 by 19 metres internally, with walls of crude sandstone construction between one and one and a half metres thick, and standing between one and a half and one point seven metres high. That combination of materials and technique places it firmly within the tradition of late eighteenth or nineteenth century upland fieldwalls, built without mortar and without any great pretension to permanence, simply to hold sheep on an exposed hillside. The narrow entrance, less than a metre wide, sits in the north-north-west quadrant and faces directly towards an abandoned farmhouse about a hundred metres to the north. The two structures almost certainly belonged to the same small agricultural holding, the fold serving the farm that is now as derelict as the fold itself.