Weblin House (Boundary Decrease)

This small brick farmhouse stands at the end of a long farm lane on Moore's Pond Road in Virginia Beach, surrounded by flat cultivated fields. It is a story-and-a-half, three-bay building with a gambrel roof that replaced an original gable roof, probably in the early nineteenth century. Brickwork includes Flemish and English bond, glazed headers and gauged flat arches over the windows. A massive south chimney was rebuilt in the 1930s using original material. Inside, the two-room plan retains several eighteenth-century mantels and a rare bolection molding mantel upstairs. The nomination dates the house to about 1700, when the land belonged to John Weblin, Jr. It is grouped with other early farmhouses of old Princess Anne County, such as the Thoroughgood, Wishart and Keeling houses, as an example of the hall-and-parlor "Virginia style." Its unchanged rural setting adds to its value as a historic landscape. Reviewers questioned its alterations, including a modern brick wing, but it was accepted.