Sutton-Newby House, Historic plantation house in Hertford, North Carolina, United States.
Sutton-Newby House is a 1+1⁄2-story, four-bay frame dwelling near Hertford, North Carolina, with a brick end and a gable roof; it originally had brick at both ends. Its brickwork is laid in Flemish bond, and it has a full-width, shed-roofed front porch and a massive double-shouldered chimney.
Built around 1745, the house belongs to a small group of eighteenth-century timber-frame buildings with brick ends that survived in northeastern North Carolina. Its listing in the National Register of Historic Places in 1974 acknowledged its importance in showing how residential architecture developed during the colonial period.
The house's name links it to the Sutton and Newby families, who owned the plantation from the mid-18th century. Its Flemish bond brickwork, with alternating headers and stretchers, is a visible sign of the skilled masonry used in this part of colonial North Carolina.
The house stands near Hertford in Perquimans County, northeast North Carolina, in a rural setting reached by local roads; the sources give no visitor facilities, opening times or public tours, so treat it as a private property seen from the road. Its four-bay facade, full-width shed-roofed porch and double-shouldered chimney are best viewed from outside.
The building stands out for its full-width shed-roofed front porch and a massive chimney with double shoulders that rise prominently on the exterior. Few other colonial houses in the region have this particular combination of front and chimney design.
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