It is set back from the road, on the south bank of the Nezinscot River.

It is a small single-story wood frame structure, with a gabled roof, clapboard siding, and fieldstone foundation.

The bays are arranged symmetrical but with irregular spacing, with three sash windows flanking two virtually identical entrances.

The interior consists of a single large chamber, whose floor is sloped in a V shape from the front and back toward the center, where the town officials sat during town meetings.

The town house was built in 1830 at a site nearer the geographic center, but was surreptitiously disassembled and relocated three times by competing groups within the town, before being fixed in place at this location.