Brick House Ruins, Plantation ruins in Edisto Island, South Carolina.

Brick House Ruins is a plantation house site dating to the 18th century on Edisto Island, featuring red brick walls and window openings. The structure stands near salt marshes and still displays architectural details including window frames and original brickwork from that period.

Paul Hamilton built the house about 1725 on a 300-acre plantation; the Jenkins family acquired the estate in 1798 and still owns it. The house stood largely unaltered until a 1929 fire consumed the wooden portions, leaving only the brick walls with stuccoed quoins and trim. It was recorded by the Historic American Buildings Survey in 1936 and 1939 and named a National Historic Landmark on 15 April 1970.

The house takes its common name from its brick walls, and the estate has stayed in one family since the Jenkins family bought it in 1798. The South Carolina Department of Archives and History calls it an artifact of early French influence in the Carolinas. Visitors can still pick out stuccoed quoins and trim on the surviving walls.

The ruins stand on private land held by the Jenkins family since 1798, so visits depend on the owner's permission; ask locally before setting out. The brick walls are unstable: the south wall was cracking badly by 2013 and the structure was only stabilized in 2018. Keep a distance from the masonry and watch for metal braces in the openings.

The house was built about 1725 for planter Paul Hamilton with exterior brick imported from Boston, harder and denser than local brick; the interior used local lumber aged seven years, and local gravel and sand came from the Pon Pon. The estate passed to the Jenkins family in 1798 and remains theirs.