King House (Windsor, North Carolina)
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King House, also known as King-Bazemore House, 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 ...
located near
Windsor Windsor may refer to: Places *Detroit–Windsor, Michigan-Ontario, USA-Canada, North America; a cross-border metropolitan region Australia New South Wales *Windsor, New South Wales ** Municipality of Windsor, a former local government area Queen ...
,
Bertie County, North Carolina Bertie County ( )Talk Like a Tarheel
, from the North Carolina Col ...
. It was built in 1763, and is a -story, frame dwelling with brick ends. It has a
gambrel roof A gambrel or gambrel roof is a usually symmetrical two-sided roof with two slopes on each side. The upper slope is positioned at a shallow angle, while the lower slope is steep. This design provides the advantages of a sloped roof while maxim ...
and features two interior T-stack end chimneys. It is one of two known gambrel roofed dwellings with brick ends in North Carolina. It was added to the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...
in 1971.


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Plantation houses in North Carolina Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Houses completed in 1763 Houses in Bertie County, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Bertie County, North Carolina {{BertieCountyNC-NRHP-stub