It is a 2+1⁄2-story timber-frame structure, with a steeply pitched gable roof and clapboarded exterior.

The ground floor is five bays across, with two sash windows on either side of the center entrance.

[2] The house was built about 1664, and originally stood facing the Windsor Green at the corner of Broad and Elm Streets.

[3] In 1635, part of the group moved to Windsor, Connecticut, but the Moores remained in Dorchester until 1639.

There was a network of families in Windsor who dominated the woodworking trade, and John Moore was considered to be at the center.