the townsend farm is located in a rural setting in eastern dublin, on the east side of east harrisville road a short way north of its junction with cobb meadow road. the house is a rambling multi-section wood frame structure, oriented roughly perpendicular to the road. nearest the road is a -story gable-roofed section with greek revival features. it has the main building entrance in the rightmost bay of the south facade, flanked by sidelight windows and topped by a corniced lintel. to the right of this section is a 5-bay -story cape with a secondary entrance at its center. further ells extend east and north from that section.