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Detached single-bay single-cell single-storey World War Two-era coastal watchman's hut\lookout post, in use c. 1939-45, having canted front elevation (north). Now out of use. Flat concrete roof with cement rendered chimneystack to the south end. Precast concrete walls having square-headed window openings, fittings now gone. Square-headed doorway to the east elevation, fittings now gone. Concrete fireplace to the south end of interior. Located in a prominent location on an elevated site on Coastguard Hill close to south of the tip of Horn Head, and to the north-west of Dunfanaghy. Built on the site of a former coastguard semaphore station, c. 1860. '77 Eire', c. 1940, sign painted on rocks at the tip of Horn Head to the north.
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