Like the Paca and Hammond-Harwood houses, it is a five-part brick mansion with a large central block and flanking pavilions with connecting hyphens.

[5] The Brice House is a simplified Georgian-style mansion that relies on its elevated site along a narrow street, its scale and the mass of its brickwork to make it one of the most impressive buildings of its style in the United States.

The entire five-part ensemble rests on an elevated basement, which adds to the impression of height from the street.

The hyphens and end pavilions are dormered, but the plain steep roof of the central block is uninterrupted, adding to the mass of the house.

Wood stairs reach the main doors on the north and south sides and are reconstructions based on an 1863 photograph.

The ballroom fireplace is a direct copy of a design from Abraham Swan's stylebook British Architect of 1745.

“William Buckland Reconsidered: Architectural Carving in Chesapeake, Maryland 1771-1774”, Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts, Vol.