240 Turrell Avenue is a 2 1/2 story, 5 bay, rectangular plan, Shingle style, wood frame, residential building. Constructed c. 1900, the wood shingle-clad house has a crossed gable roof with hipped dormers. A Palladian window ornaments the gable apex and the house is encircled by a full Doric column-supported porch. The house also features brick end chimneys, bracket-supported overhanging eaves, and an oval decorative window on the second floor over the entrance bay. In 1904, the house was owned by F.E. Gallately. By 1911 it was owned by J.E. Starke.