The Philo Hicock House, reflective of the Ontario Regency Cottage Style and the Ontario Vernacular Style, consists of a one and-a-half-storey rubblestone structure covered in stucco. It features an enormous wraparound porch with small wooden pillars and intricate woodworking, large wooden central front door with transom and sidelights, and two large casement windows on the first floor line up with the two symmetrical dormers above. The large central dormer has wood detailing in addition to an upper flushed fan transom.

Philo Hicock was born in 1808, the son of an American who immigrant from Connecticut. In 1842, he purchased a share of the foundry in Delta. By the mid-1840s, he employed three men at the foundry, two in his blacksmith's shop, and an additional two at a cabinet-making shop. He built his home close to the foundry. He was a member of the first Township Council of 1851 and served as Reeve for ten years between 1851 and 1872.