Inverness is a historic plantation house and national

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located near Burkeville, Nottoway County, Virginia. In its present form the house is a five-bay, two-story, gable-roofed, L-shaped frame-and-weatherboard I-house set above a high basement, with exterior end chimneys. The original section of the house was built about 1800, and raised to two stories in the early-19th century. A large, two-story, two-room wing was added about 1845, forming the "L"-shape. Around 1895 a crude, two-story kitchen wing, was attached to the 1845 wing, and side porches were added. A Classical Revival monumental

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with four Doric order columns and a small second-floor balcony, was installed across the three center bays of the front facade about 1907. Also on the property are a contributing 20th century frame and cement-block dairy barn, and a 20th-century frame milk shed. an
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/ref> It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

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Plantation houses in Virginia Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Neoclassical architecture in Virginia Houses completed in 1800 Houses in Nottoway County, Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Nottoway County, Virginia {{NottowayCountyVA-NRHP-stub