The Gauriswara temple is built in a low-lying area. The rainwater which flows through it has deposited a thick amount of silt and many of the segments are buried even now. What remains on the ground today is a square cella which is 5.15 m square. The entrance porch seems to be a recently conserved portion which provides an access to the sanctum. The walls are plain and the ceiling is completely missing. The inner wall of the portico has a niche and is said to have a four-armed figure of Mahadeva piercing the demon Tripura with his trident which is now missing.
There is a saying that there was a peristyle around the temple which also got covered due to flooding of the temple premises. During the year 1987, an attempt was made to expose a portion of the peristyle but it appeared to be more than 3 m deep and with a fear of waterlogging the attempts were abandoned1.
1 R.C Agrawal, Kashmir and its Monumental Glory (New Delhi: Aryan Books International, 1998), 153.