Amblers, also known as the Coke-Watts House, is a historic farmstead at 2205 Jamestown Road in

James City County, Virginia James City County is a county (United States), county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, the population was 78,254. Although politically separate from the county, the county seat is the adj ...

, just north of the Jamestown peninsula. Its main house is a handsome -story brick structure, built in 1852 in the country style promoted by

Andrew Jackson Downing Andrew Jackson Downing (October 31, 1815 – July 28, 1852) was an American landscape designer, horticulturist, and writer, a prominent advocate of the Gothic Revival in the United States, and editor of ''The Horticulturist'' magazine (1846–5 ...

, and expanded with a sympathetically styled Colonial Revival addition in the 1950s. The property includes two surviving 19th-century brick farm outbuildings, and landscaping from the 1950s that is also considered historically significant. The property was listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic ...

in 2015.

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Houses completed in 1852 Houses in James City County, Virginia National Register of Historic Places in James City County, Virginia 1852 establishments in Virginia {{JamesCityCountyVA-NRHP-stub

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