NRHP Reference # 82004578 Area 4.05 km² | VLR # 068-0181 Added to NRHP 23 September 1982 | |
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Location N of Gordonsville on VA 231, near Gordonsville, Virginia Built c. 1905 (1905), 1933-1935 Architect Bottomley, William L.; Innocenti, Umberto Architectural style Georgian Revival, Federal, Adamesque | ||
Rocklands is a historic home and farm complex located near Gordonsville, Orange County, Virginia. The house was built about 1905, and underwent a major renovation under the direction of William Lawrence Bottomley in 1933-1935. It is a 2 1/2-story, five-bay, Georgian Revival style brick dwelling with a hipped roof. The front facade features a monumental Ionic order hexastyle portico. Also on the property are the contributing guest house (c. 1905, 1935); a small service court designed by Bottomley and consisting of a garage, servant's house, woodshed, and tunnel; a 19th-century coach barn of wood-frame construction; the mid-19th century farm manager's house; Spencer Neale, Jr., Residence (c. 1900); bank barn (c. 1910); and a brick house (1822).
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.