It is located in the seat of Yangshan Town, Jinxiang County. To this day, Yangshan Ancient Town still preserves 148 well-conserved ancient residential buildings and 36 old shops built in different architectural styles during the Ming and Qing dynasties. The ancient dwellings are mainly concentrated in Xiaolizhuang Village, Xiaotun Village and Manzhuang Village, while the old shops line East Street of Yangshan Town.

In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the ancient street of Yangshan was lined with stores that mainly sold incense and sacrificial items for temples. A local proverb still circulates today: "Business thrives in Yangshan, and temples flourish in Juye." People within a radius of one hundred li flocked here to buy religious supplies.

Some ancient residences feature a shop in the front and a courtyard in the rear. Others are two-courtyard or three-courtyard quadrangles enclosed by northern main houses, southern houses and east-west wing rooms. They follow a strict central axis with symmetric buildings. The courtyards are connected laterally and extend deep inward.

Most of these buildings adopt brick-wood or stone-wood structures with grey tiles on blue brick walls or stone walls. A number of two-storey buildings boast sharp outlines, stone steps and painted pillars with exquisite facades. Many are decorated with elaborate wood carvings, brick carvings and stone carvings. There are also hanging floral towers, chimneys, shrines and screen walls. A screen wall stands facing the main gate inside the courtyard, also known as a facing wall. It is adorned with rich brick carvings and gorgeous coloured paintings featuring auspicious patterns and inscriptions symbolizing good fortune, official rank and blessings. Stone lions and stone hitching posts stand in front of the gates.

Larger quadrangles are equipped with rear courtyards of varying sizes serving as private gardens. The northern main house of the inner compound faces south, standing as the core building of the whole courtyard. It sits on a high foundation and is usually composed of three rooms, while grand mansions have five rooms. Three rooms on each of the east and west sides open inward, known as wing rooms. Some large quadrangles have additional side chambers south of the wing rooms. The southern houses, also called inverted seat rooms, usually serve as guest rooms or studies for young family members.

These ancient dwellings with distinct local characteristics hold high cultural relic value. In the spring of 2009, two stone steles inscribed with records of "Reconstruction of the East Stockade Gate" and "Reconstruction of the West Stockade Gate" were unearthed during a cultural relic survey along Yangshan Ancient Street. In 2008, Yangshan Ancient Dwellings were designated a Municipal Key Cultural Relic Protection Unit.