Holly Hill is a historic

plantation house A plantation house is the main house of a plantation, often a substantial farmhouse, which often serves as a symbol for the plantation as a whole. Plantation houses in the Southern United States and in other areas are known as quite grand and e ...

near Aylett in

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. It was built about 1820 and is a two-story, five-bay-by-two-bay

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-style brick dwelling. It has a hipped roof and four-bay rear ell. an
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in 1973.

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Plantation houses in Virginia Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Georgian architecture in Virginia Houses completed in 1820 Houses in King and Queen County, Virginia National Register of Historic Places in King and Queen County, Virginia {{KingQueenCountyVA-NRHP-stub