The house consists of multiple sections, roughly oriented from west to east, set back from the road on landscaped grounds above a retaining wall.

The front facade is adorned with pilasters at the corners and on both sides of the entrance, where they rise all the way to the roof line.

A three-part window is on the second level above the entrance, and there is a gabled dormer-like section on the roofline, which has a decorative carved fan.

The house was purchased in 1822 by William Lord, a shipbuilder, and has remained in his family.

The house is locally distinctive for its combination of well-preserved colonial and Federal period elements.