A two-storey building having an elevated ground floor with underlying shops and with a mezzanine floor. The façade is asymmetric with a large portal to the left at ground floor consisting of a door with a flanking pair of narrow attached pilasters in the Doric order, above which is a large square light window set between a pair of consoles supporting a cornice crowned with an elaborate sculptured pediment at the centre of which is a small oval window.

At first floor is a double depth wooden balcony supported on four heavy scroll corbels having floral motifs.

The first floor windows have projecting sills and flat cornices above the lintel and supported on consoles. This first floor was originally of double height having an unusual extensive area of bare masonry above the upper floor windows. In later times closed wooden balconies were inserted above some of the first floor windows.

The stairway is typical of the style used by Cassar and Gafà, which reaches the elevated ground floor erected on a semi basement level. Its vaulted roof follows the same pitch of the stairs and is decorated with stone coffering. Some decades ago this large town house was structurally altered internally to create a small cinema theatre and two levels of shopping arcades.

Mepa scheduled No. 56, Triq San Ġwann as a Grade 1 national monument as per Government Notice number 276/08 in the Government Gazette dated March 28.