Benjamin James House

The Benjamin James House is a historic house at 186 Towle Farm Road in Hampton, New Hampshire. The 2-1/2 story wood frame house was built c. 1723, and is one of the oldest surviving regional examples of what became a typical and widely-reproduced building form: the five-bay wide, two-room deep, center chimney house. The central chimney was removed late in the 19th century, at which time the house also received new windows (although at least one of its original window sashes was found in the attic). The house remained in the James family until 1931, and has been owned by the James House Association, a local non-profit dedicated to its preservation since 1995.

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.