Red Hill (Bullock, North Carolina)

Red Hill
Location NC 1501, near Bullock, North Carolina
Coordinates 36°31′44″N 78°31′13″W / 36.52889°N 78.52028°W / 36.52889; -78.52028Coordinates: 36°31′44″N 78°31′13″W / 36.52889°N 78.52028°W / 36.52889; -78.52028
Area 5 acres (2.0 ha)
Built c. 1776 (1776), c. 1807, c. 1820
Architectural style Greek Revival, Georgian, Federal
NRHP Reference # 86001632[1]
Added to NRHP August 14, 1986

Red Hill is a historic plantation house located near Bullock, Granville County, North Carolina. The house consists of three parts: a 1 1/2-story, two-bay gambrel-roofed Georgian style center block built about 1776; a 1 1/2-story, two-bay one-room, gable-roofed Georgian style block with transitional Federal features, built about 1807; and a very tall two-story, three-bay, transitional Federal/ Greek Revival style addition, built about 1820, style frame I-house dwelling. It has a full basement, full width front porch, and exterior brick chimneys. Across from the house is the 2 1/2-story heavy timber frame tobacco manufactory. Also on the property are the contributing wash house / striphouse, open wellhouse, smokehouse, privy, and flower house / chicken house.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Staff (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. Patricia S. Dickinson and Cynthia A. Craig (June 1986). "Red Hill" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-11-01.


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