Established about 1790 and subject to major alterations in the 1860s, it is a well-preserved and little-altered example of a 19th-century New England connected farmstead.

The farmstead stands close to the road, on 2.2 acres (0.89 ha) that are surrounded by working agricultural fields.

The principal feature of the farmstead is the main house, an Italianate structure at the front of the complex that is one of the town's earliest examples of the style.

Extending behind it are a kitchen ell, a long shed, and two attached barns, all built or moved to the site in the early 1860s.

Wheat, a prosperous farmer, was responsible for the transformation of the 1780s farmstead into the connected complex that we see in largely unaltered form today.