The present church stands on the foundations of a medieval predecessor dating from the 1200s, which was demolished in 1828 to make way for the new building. Archaeological investigations of the earlier church's remains in 2002–2003 revealed a rectangular nave with a narrower, straight-ended chancel and a porch on the south side. Its fate was sealed in 1827, when royal permission was granted for a national collection to fund a new church at Ullared.
The new church was built by local builder Bengt Larsson of Dughult to Samuel Enander's designs, in whitewashed stone, measuring 25 by 13 metres. It was consecrated on 8 October 1829. In 1843 the painter Theodor Mohme of Öxnevalla decorated the interior, adding distinctive painted trees and bushes along the eaves of the barrel vault, along with a Golgotha scene added to the older altarpiece.
Among the church's furnishings is a granite font bowl dating from the 1200s, cut at Funtaliden in Fagered parish, plain and cylindrical, which was removed when the new church was built and reportedly used by a blacksmith for hardening metal before being recovered, repaired and returned to the church on a newly carved base. A wooden font from the 1700s, used while the stone font was missing, also survives. The altarpiece itself dates from the late 1600s or early 1700s, while the altar structure was made in 1841 by Johannes Andersson of Mjöbäck. The pulpit, also by Andersson, was made and painted by Mohme in 1843; an earlier 17th-century pulpit no longer survives.
The church bells reflect different periods: the smaller bell was recast in 1808 by Anders Öfverström in Gothenburg, while the larger was cast in 1924 at Ohlsson's bell foundry in Ystad. The communion vessels date from 1638, with a paten added in 1850. The organ has been rebuilt several times, from an original nine-stop instrument of 1853 by Carl Nilsson, through a 1934 rebuild by A. Magnusson Orgelbyggeri, to the current twenty-stop organ built in 1982 by Tostareds Kyrkorgelfabrik, which retains some earlier pipework in its facade.