Eltham Manor | |
Designated Other1: | Virginia Landmarks Register |
Designated Other1 Date: | December 7, 2005[1] |
Designated Other1 Number: | 044-5011 |
Designated Other1 Num Position: | bottom |
Location: | 405 Riverside Dr., near Bassett, Virginia |
Coordinates: | 36.7325°N -79.9681°W |
Architect: | William Roy Wallace |
Builder: | Millard Mason (barn) |
Architecture: | Colonial Revival |
Added: | August 5, 1999 |
Refnum: | 99000960 |
Eltham Manor is a historic estate located near Bassett, Henry County, Virginia. It was built in 1936 by William McKinley Bassett, and is a Colonial Revival brick dwelling. The manor is named for the Burwell Bassett family home, "Eltham Plantation", in Eltham, Virginia, that burned in 1879. It consists of a -story, five-bay, central section flanked by two-story wings, connected by cured hyphens to a two-story garage and servant's quarters at the north end and a one-story open-air pavilion at the south end. The front facade features a Doric order portico with smooth two-story columns. Also on the property are a contributing barn (c. 1936) and lake (c. 1936).[2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.