The Hermitage, Historic house in North Carolina, United States.
The Hermitage, also known as Tillery House, is a tripartite plantation house near Tillery, Halifax County, North Carolina. Its two-story, three-bay, pedimented central block is flanked by one-story, two-bay wings, with an exterior end chimney at the end of each wing and another at the rear of the long central block.
The Hermitage, also called Tillery House, was built about 1810 near Tillery in Halifax County. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
The house is also called Tillery House, after the community near which it stands in Halifax County. Its tripartite plan, with a pedimented central block between low wings, follows a formal late-Georgian and neoclassical fashion brought to the North Carolina plantation country around 1810.
The Hermitage stands near Tillery in Halifax County, North Carolina, and is a private plantation house rather than a museum, so visits depend on the owner's permission. The tripartite plan is easiest to read from outside: the two-story central block with its pediment, the one-story wings, and the chimneys at each wing end and at the rear of the long central block.
The house is tripartite: a two-story, three-bay pedimented central block flanked by one-story, two-bay wings, with an exterior end chimney at each wing and another at the rear of the long central block. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
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