Red Hill (Bullock, North Carolina) Explained

Red Hill
Location:NC 1501, near Bullock, North Carolina
Coordinates:36.5289°N -78.5203°W
Built:c., c. 1807, c. 1820
Architecture:Greek Revival, Georgian, Federal
Added:August 14, 1986
Refnum:86001632

Red Hill is a historic plantation house located near Bullock, Granville County, North Carolina, United States. The house consists of three parts: a -story, two-bay gambrel-roofed Georgian style center block built about 1776; a -story, two-bay one-room, gable-roofed Georgian style block with transitional Federal features, built about 1807; and a very tall two-story, three-bay, transitional Federal/ Greek Revival style addition, built about 1820, style frame I-house dwelling. It has a full basement, full width front porch, and exterior brick chimneys. Across from the house is the -story heavy timber frame tobacco manufactory. Also on the property are the contributing wash house / striphouse, open wellhouse, smokehouse, privy, and flower house / chicken house.[1]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Patricia S. Dickinson and Cynthia A. Craig . Red Hill . National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory . June 1986 . North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office . 2014-11-01.