Maidstone Manor Farm | |
Nrhp Type: | hd |
Nocat: | yes |
Location: | County Route 1/4, near Hedgesville, West Virginia |
Coordinates: | 39.5872°N -77.9089°W |
Built: | 1848 |
Architect: | Leigh, William |
Added: | December 10, 1980 |
Refnum: | 80004408 |
Maidstone Manor Farm, also known as William R. Leigh House, is a national historic district located near Hedgesville, Berkeley County, West Virginia. It encompasses a historic farm with three contributing buildings and one contributing site, the site of a slave cabin. The plantation house is a two-story, square brick dwelling with a slate covered pyramidal roof. It is three bays wide and two bays deep and features a one bay entrance portico supported by paired Doric order columns. Also on the property are a barn and brick smokehouse. It was the birthplace of noted artist William Robinson Leigh (1866-1955), father of William Colston Leigh, Sr. (1901-1992).[1]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.