Rose Hill

Rose Hill is a two-story, double-pile Greek Revival brick dwelling set on a farm estate in northern Granville County, North Carolina. Its walls are five-course common bond brick, with triangular pediments over the six-over-six windows and a front entry framed by leaded glass circles and triangles. Inside, the center hall and flanking rooms keep Greek Revival finishes, including fluted surrounds with bull's-eye cornerblocks, post and lintel mantels, and a crossetted mantel in the west parlor. According to family tradition, enslaved workers made the bricks and built the house in 1834, and a deed from 1830 is probably the original conveyance for the land. The property is significant as the county's only surviving antebellum brick plantation house and as an example of Greek Revival style. Its tobacco barns, a striphouse, a packhouse and a turn-of-the-century tenant house add to its importance as a bright leaf tobacco farm. The period of significance closes in 1937.