It includes a plantation house built through the forced labor of at least 11 enslaved people[2] between about 1810 and 1825, and its surrounding agricultural fields.

They include the main house, kitchen, pig boiling pit, four-seat privy, smokehouse, two-seat privy, corn crib, small barn, well shelter, and the surrounding landscape.

It sits on a raised brick basement and has a tall hipped roof.

It has a full-width Victorian porch and a number of one-story rear additions.

It was one of six homes that Alston, one of the largest landowners and enslavers in the area, built for his children.