Ballentine-Shealy House Explained

Ballentine-Shealy House
Location:South Carolina Highway 1323, near Lexington, South Carolina
Coordinates:34.1047°N -81.3819°W
Added:November 22, 1983
Refnum:83003858

Ballentine-Shealy House, also known as the Ballentine-Shealy-Slocum House, is a historic home located near Lexington, Lexington County, South Carolina. It was built in the late-18th or early-19th century, and is a -story, rectangular log building. It is sheathed in weatherboard and has a standing seam metal gable roof. It has shed rooms on the rear and a one-story shed-roofed front porch with an enclosed room. The house has a hall-and-parlor plan and an enclosed stair. An open breezeway connects the house to the kitchen (ca. 1870), which has a fieldstone and brick chimney and a side porch. Also on the property a dilapidated dairy, a small log barn, and a well house.[1] [2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: unknown. Ballentine-Shealy House . National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory . n.d.. pdf . June 18, 2014.
  2. Web site: Ballentine-Shealy House, Lexington County (S.C. Sec. Rd. 1323, Lexington vicinity) . National Register Properties in South Carolina . South Carolina Department of Archives and History . June 18, 2014.