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Oakley (Heathsville, Virginia)

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NRHP Reference #
  
99000073

Designated VLR
  
December 10, 1998

Architectural style
  
Federal architecture

Added to NRHP
  
27 January 1999

VLR #
  
066-0053

Area
  
11 ha

Function
  
House

Oakley (Heathsville, Virginia)

Location
  
28 Back St., Heathsville, Virginia

Built
  
c. 1820 (1820), 1898, 1978

Oakley is a historic plantation house located at Heathsville, Northumberland County, Virginia. It was built about 1820, and is a 2 1/2-story, five bay, Federal style frame dwelling. It is topped by a gabled standing seam metal roof. A frame two-story ell was added in 1898 and a one-story, glass-enclosed porch in 1978. The front facade features a one-story, tetrastyle porch. Also on the property are the contributing massive frame barn and 19th century frame shed. It is located in the Heathsville Historic District. The house was owned for a time by C. Harding Walker, a notable state politician, and his family.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

References

Oakley (Heathsville, Virginia) Wikipedia