It is a 2+1⁄2-story timber-frame structure, five bays wide, with a large central chimney.

The main entrance is flanked by pilasters and topped by a transom window and heavy molded cap.

The main block is estimated to have been built around 1760, by a member of the locally prominent Jenckes family.

[2] The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

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