Hogback, type f, with curved ridge and bowed side-walls, one long face more markedly convex than the other; the gable-ends are plain and inward sloping. The ridge carries a cabled moulding linking the two bodiless end-beasts which are inward facing with hollowed ears and chevron-incised muzzles. Flat-band mouldings extend down from the back of the animals' heads to form a frame for the gable-end; by linking to a curved moulding below the beasts' jaws, they also create undecorated panels at both ends of the three curving rows of type 7 tegulation on the roof. There is no ornament on the low side walls.

This hogback differs from the majority of those found in Cumbria in its low squat proportions. Most of the details of its ornament can be paralleled across a scatter of sites: the tegulation type is geographically widespread; the beasts' ears have exact analogies at Brompton, Yorkshire (Schmidt 1970, fig. 6); the jaw chevrons are found again at Sinnington, Yorkshire, and Meigle, Perthshire (Collingwood 1907a, 386; Lang 1972–4, fig. 5). The closest parallel for the general composition comes from Wycliffe, Yorkshire (Schmidt 1973, fig. 28a), which uses a bodiless head of similar proportions, moulded borders to a plain gable-end, and a panel set immediately beneath the animal. Since, however, Gosforth 5 also has a bodiless head set over a panel, this apparent close link across the Pennines may not be particularly significant. The curved moulding presumably represents a stylistic development from the clasping paws of end-beasts like those at Brompton, Yorkshire (Bailey 1980, pl. 22).