[1] The Wheelock House is located in southern Townshend, on the east side of Vermont Route 30 about 1 mile (1.6 km) south of the village center.

A single-story porch extends across the center three bays of the main facade, supported by octagonal tapered columns rising to a richly carved entablature.

The interior retains original plaster and woodwork of high quality, including a straight-run central staircase whose railings run continuously up to the attic level.

Allen Wheelock spent several years in Natchez, Mississippi, where he administered an estate and apparently acquired significant wealth, including four slaves.

The house incorporates some design features and building practices that are more typical of the South than they are of Vermont, and some of its decorative materials (notably the porch columns) may have been brought north.