At right angles to an extensive, shingled twentieth-century wing, itself a very substantial house, is the original eighteenth-century house with the gable-on-hip roof associated with Newport. Nathaniel Briggs, a slave trader, built the original house. Two duplications of its pedimented and transomed door provide the principal features of the modern addition. Northwest of the house is a fine stone barn, more impressive before 1970s conversion to residential use.