Built c. 1855 (1855) NRHP Reference # 88000422 Added to NRHP 28 April 1988 | MPS Granville County MPS Area 6 ha | |
Architectural style Greek Revival architecture | ||
Locust Lawn is a historic tobacco plantation house and national historic district located near Oxford, Granville County, North Carolina. It was built about 1855 by Armistead Ravenscroft Burwell, a descendant of the prominent Burwell Family of Virginia and is a two-story, three bay, "T"-shaped Greek Revival style dwelling. It has a two-story rear ell, one-story kitchen wing, brick cellar and central front porch. Also on the property are the contributing six log tobacco barns, two frame barns, frame corncrib, overseer's house, and Burwell Family cemetery.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
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