It sits on a raised basement and features an imposing prostyle tetrastyle portico with great fluted Ionic order columns.

The building was remodeled and a two-story rear addition built in 1939 by the Works Progress Administration.

The clerk's and register's office was built in 1831, and is a one-story brick building with stepped parapet gable ends and a plaster cornice.

[1] It was built on land previously developed by Jeptha Atherton in 1762, who allowed the use of a building for county court meetings.

This article about a property in Northampton County, North Carolina on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.