This small, symmetrical, T-shaped, wood-frame and shingle cottage was erected for local resident Albert Irving Simonds in either 1891 or 1892. It is one of New Hampshire’s best examples of a late Victorian catalogue or “kit”-type house, the source of which remains a mystery. In a superb state of preservation, the building is compact in form and displays simple but effective ornamentation. Protected by a steeply pitched roof, it is sheathed with clapboards on the first story, and curved, sawn shingles in the attic story's gable on the northwest front projection. Wooden decoration includes: sillboards and cornerboards; panels of flush boarding below the windows and in the flanking gables; wide lintel bands above the windows, cleverly articulated in the northwest projection; and boards and battens in the gables. The eaves treatment consists of incised bargeboards on the gable end, and exposed rafters with fascia boards at the side overhangs. The main door is located at the north corner in an inset entry porch with broken arch lintels supported by a single, chamfered wooden post and side half posts.