The manor grounds contain a chapel notable as the burial place of Willem van der Haegen, an early settler of the Azores.

Solar dos Tiagos is characteristic of the signeurial architecture of São Jorge.

Tiago Gregório Homem da Costa Noronha, the last captain-major of Topo and closest relative of the seventh captain-major António da Silveira Ávila, constructed the manor during the mid eighteenth to mid nineteenth centuries.

The manor house ruins are located on a hilltop promontory near the port and settlement of Topo.

The house's longer leg runs parallel to the adjacent road and contains a balcony with two doors separated by tightly spaced windows.