Haystack Farm is a historic home and farm located near

Oak Grove, Surry County, North Carolina Oak Grove is an unincorporated community, North Carolina, unincorporated community in northern Surry County, North Carolina, United States, located near Bottom, North Carolina, Bottom. Geography It is located between the Wood Fork Branch and the ...

. The farmhouse was built about 1885, and is a two-story, three-bay, gable roofed frame dwelling with a two-story rear ell. It has a full-width, hip roofed front porch and

Italianate The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. Like Palladianism and Neoclassicism, the Italianate style drew its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century Italian R ...

style design elements. Also on the property are the contributing gambrel-roof livestock barn, a

board-and-batten A batten is most commonly a strip of solid material, historically wood but can also be of plastic, metal, or fiberglass. Battens are variously used in construction, sailing, and other fields. In the lighting industry, battens refer to linea ...

frame packhouse, and a half-dovetail plank apple drying shed. The house was built by Christopher Wren Bunker, son of Chang and nephew of Eng Bunker. It 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 v ...

in 1982.

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Farms on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Italianate architecture in North Carolina Houses completed in 1885 Buildings and structures in Surry County, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Surry County, North Carolina 1885 establishments in North Carolina {{SurryCountyNC-NRHP-stub