Greyledge

Greyledge is a 245-acre rural property in eastern Botetourt County, Virginia, set on a spur of The Knob at over 1,200 feet with views toward Purgatory Mountain and the Blue Ridge. Its core is a symmetrical two-story brick house with a center-passage plan, begun about 1854 for the Cartmill family and completed by 1857. Greek Revival details survive in the entries, mantels, door trim and stair. The Pechin family acquired the property in 1895 and added a two-story east wing in 1906, along with porches, a greenhouse, and rear wings for an ice house and porte cochere. The district also includes a washhouse converted to an apartment, a cistern, a potato cellar that stored acetylene for lighting, farm buildings, a pet cemetery, a pond, and two secondary dwellings known as the Gate House and the Creek House. The estate is linked to Ann Sisson and the nearby Etna Furnace iron industry, and it reflects farm life from the 1850s through the twentieth century.