311 Centre Street is a 1 1/2 story, 5 bay, rectangular plan, wood frame, vernacular, residential building. One of the three oldest houses in the Montrose Park area, the Bishop Baldwin house was believed to be constructed c. 1806. The 5 bay, clapboard-clad, main block of the house features a wood shingle-clad, side gable roof, end chimneys, two gabled dormers with narrow vergeboards flanking the centered gabled wall dormer, and a paired, canted-corner, pier-supported, flat-roofed portico with scrolled brackets. The house features two set back side wings on the north side of the house. The middle section is three bays wide with clapboard on the upper floor and weatherboard on the lower floor. This section is half a floor lower than the main block. In turn, the middle section features a single bay, clapboard-clad, set back extension. All of the sections have overhanging eaves, scrolled bracket trim, two-over two double hung sash, and a brownstone foundation.

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