[1] The building dates from the gold rush boom period in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and is of historic significance.

[2][3] Significant remnants[4] of the limewashed and shingled house still exist at the rear of the main building.

[5] The building is a two-storey limestone and brick structure with a rendered facade with stucco ornamentation.

It was designed by architect Herbert Nathaniel Davis[6] in the Victorian Classical Revival style,[7] and built in 1895.

Commercial enterprises have been the main occupiers of the building's ten apartments, such as Vincent, James Lilly, and Tompkins and Co.[6] The building was classified by the National Trust of Australia in August 1983 and was also on the Register of the National Estate.