It is a Federal-style, two-story, five-bay frame house with brick ends, which is two rooms deep and has a gable roof.

Each brick end contains a large double exterior chimney.

The house is a large and fully developed Federal period house exhibiting one of the most important characteristics of Southern Maryland's 18th-century architecture: brick ends with frame facades.

Woodlawn was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

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