With a lay out in rectangular shape, each temple in the Aranyik area faced in northern direction and had a chedi or a mandapa as its principle building. A vihara with only one wall at the back was built in front of the main chedi while the ordination hall of small size was constructed outside the axis of the principle chedi. Owing to low level location of this group of temples, a ditch was dug on four sides of the temple so as to bring the earth from the excavation to fill the temple ground to a higher level and to be used as a place to store water for the dry season. Besides, the ditch enclosing the temple as a mark of demarcation was a type of planning found in the Sukhothai period. The main chedi was designed either in a lotus bud shape which was the typical style of the Sukhothai chedi and mostly found in Sukhothai and other associated towns or in a circular bell shape as discovered in Wat Sum Ko, Wat Nong Lanka, Wat Mong Kale and Wat Nong Yai Chuai. A mandapa serving as the main chedi was found only in Wat Nong Phikun. This mandapa was a squared building with a front entrance. Enshrining a sitting Buddha image of great size, the mandapa has some similarities with one found at Wat Si Chum in Sukhothai.