172 Vose Avenue is a 2 1/2 story, 4 bay, rectangular plan, wood frame, Shingle Style, residential building. The c. 1910 front facing gable-roofed house features gabled dormers, a Doric column-supported, full front porch, decorative vergeboards at the gable eaves with knee brace supports, 9/1 windows on the first floor and 12/1 on the second floor, classicizing window surrounds, and wood shingle cladding.