Built c. 1770 (1770), 1816 VLR # 090-0023 Area 106 ha Added to NRHP 27 August 2013 | NRHP Reference # 13000649 Designated VLR June 19, 2013 Architectural style Federal architecture | |
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Location Southeastern corner of Highgate and Chippokes Farm Rds, near Highgate, Virginia | ||
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Walnut Valley is a historic plantation house and archaeological site located near Highgate, Surry County, Virginia. The property includes a plantation house (c. 1770), a frame slave quarter (1816), eight contributing 19th- and 20th-century agricultural and domestic outbuildings and structures, and an archaeological site. The house is a 1 1/2-story, four-bay, double-pile, side-gabled frame house on a brick foundation. It measures 40 feet, 4 inches, by 30 feet, 5 inches and features Federal style decorative elements. The one-story, two-bay frame slave quarter measures 14 feet by 16 feet, and is clad in weatherboard. The contributing outbuildings include a frame kitchen, a late-19th century storehouse and a granary, well house, silo, and three chicken houses. The property was conveyed to the Commonwealth of Virginia for the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation on January 14, 2004.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.