Its main entry is crowned with a modest fanlight, echoed by a fan-shaped wooden motif atop the window above it.

On the grounds, visitors will find a nineteenth-century garden, fruit trees, a privy, cobbled yard and carriage house.

Within the house are fine collections of silver, furniture, portraits, clocks, needlework, antique fans, hatboxes, nineteenth century toys, and more from New England, Asia, and Europe.

An extensive clock collection includes examples made by local master clockmakers David Wood and Daniel Balch.

[3] The house is deemed nationally significant for its association with Cushing, a 19th-century diplomat whose defining achievement was the Treaty of Wanghia, negotiated in 1844 with the Qing dynasty of China.