Cromwell's Run Rural Historic District (Boundary Increase)

This 58-acre addition to Cromwell's Run Rural Historic District lies along U.S. Route 50 and Rectors Lane at the western edge of Atoka, Virginia, bounded by Goose Creek and the Loudoun County line. It contains five dwellings, a school, a run-in shed, a pool and pool house, and a garage, all built in the late twentieth century. The best known is the brick dwelling at Heron's Court Farm, designed in 1963 by architect J. Sanford Potter with English manor house influences. The land was added because it had been left out of the original district by oversight and shares its open pastures, stone walls, board fences and historic road. It also sits within the area of the June 1863 cavalry fighting at Goose Creek and the stone bridge, where the rise at Heron's Court Farm gave Union troops a strong vantage point. Although none of the buildings are of historic age, they fit the scale and character of the surroundings.