The Hermitage (Tillery, North Carolina)

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The Hermitage
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Location1 mile (1.6 km) west of Tillery off NC 481, near Tillery, North Carolina
Coordinates 36°14′30″N77°30′23″W / 36.24167°N 77.50639°W / 36.24167; -77.50639
Area20 acres (8.1 ha)
Built1810 (1810)
NRHP reference No. 75001274 [1]
Added to NRHPMay 29, 1975

The Hermitage, also known as Tillery House, is a historic plantation house located near Tillery, Halifax County, North Carolina. It was built about 1810, and is a tripartite house that consists of a two-story, three-bay, pedimented central block flanked by one-story, two-bay, wings. An exterior end chimney rises at the end of each wing and at the rear of the very long central block. [2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. John Baxton Flowers, III & Catherine W. Cockshutt (March 1975). "The Hermitage" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved January 1, 2015.