It is the town's oldest brick residence, built in 1807 for a pair of prominent local merchants.

It is a large double-pile two story brick structure, with a hip roof and a rubblestone foundation.

[2] The house was built in 1807 for Jacob Auld and Joseph McCobb, two prominent local merchants.

The two were engaged in a business partnership that included fishing, shipbuilding, and general mercantile pursuits, and were a dominant force in the local economy in the first quarter of the 19th century.

The house is out of scale for other surviving construction of the period in the town, and the use of brick was also quite unusual.