The Hermitage, also known as Tillery House, is a historic plantation house located near Tillery, Halifax County, North Carolina. It was built about 1810, and is a tripartite house that consists of a two-story, three-bay, pedimented central block flanked by one-story, two-bay, wings. An exterior end chimney rises at the end of each wing and at the rear of the very long central block.[2]
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| Location | 1 mile (1.6 km) west of Tillery off NC 481, near Tillery, North Carolina |
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| Coordinates | 36°14′30″N 77°30′23″W / 36.24167°N 77.50639°W |
| Area | 20 acres (8.1 ha) |
| Built | 1810 |
| NRHP reference No. | 75001274[1] |
| Added to NRHP | May 29, 1975 |
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ John Baxton Flowers, III & Catherine W. Cockshutt (March 1975). "The Hermitage" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-01-01.