The Hatch House is set on the south side of Sanford Road (Maine State Route 109), just west of the High Pine Baptist Church in northwestern Wells.

The main block is a 1+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a central chimney and clapboard siding.

A 1+1⁄2-story ell, with a tall gable dormer and a second chimney, extends to the east, joining the house to a barn.

Wells was settled in the 1640s, and was from its earliest days a primarily agrarian settlement, while neighboring York and Kennebunkport developed economically around fishing, lumber, and seagoing merchant activity.

This rural setting allowed a larger number of these older humble farmsteads to survive.