Peace, John, Jr., House

Set on a stone-crowned hill in Granville County, North Carolina, this one-and-a-loft house is three bays wide and unusually narrow and deep for the area. Its steeply pitched roof sweeps down over a shed room and a front porch, a form linked to eighteenth and nineteenth century dwellings of the eastern Piedmont and coastal plain. The most striking feature is the broad, double-shouldered chimney, built of local gray rock, which is carved with the legend Thomas Collier 1801. The interior has a two-room-deep plan with no hall, a boxed stair, angled corner hearths and flush-sheathed wainscoting with six-panel doors. The house is significant as one of the county's oldest and most unusual dwellings and as an early surviving example of a modest planter's home. Josiah Peace owned six slaves in 1840, according to the census, and a family cemetery with Jenkins, Holmes and Strother markers lies nearby.