The Heptinstall House Plantation Halifax County, North Carolina
The Heptinstall House is an notable example of transitional Federal/Greek Revival, side-hall plantation house. It is located in Halifax County, North Carolina and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978 as the Edmunds-Heptinstall house. The house was built in the 1830s/40s for William Howell Edmunds [1815-1862] who sold the house in 1855 to the Reverend John Wesley Heptinstall [1814-1891], a planter and active Methodist leader. Although the house appears from the front yard to be two stories, it actually has four full stories which include a ground-level basement that served as the original kitchen and an unfinished attic space. The central block is roughly a thirty-five foot square sheathed with beaded weatherboard, resting on a raised stone basement originally stuccoed and scored to represent ashlar. Two exterior large stone chimneys are on the left side of the house and contain six fireplaces, two on each of the first three floors.