Brickland is a historic

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located near Kenbridge,

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. The original section was built about 1818, with an addition built about 1822, and rear addition in 1920. It is a -story, eight-bay, brick dwelling in the

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style. The front facade features a gable-roof porch with paired

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columns. Also on the property are the contributing pump house,

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(c. 1820), Lunenburg County's first

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(c. 1900), a summer kitchen (c. 1820), barns, a chicken house, and the ruins of slave quarters and an ice house. an
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in 2005.

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