N. C. Downs House is a historic house located along Road 141 in Kenton,

Kent County, Delaware Kent County is a county located in the central part of the U.S. state of Delaware. As of the 2020 census, the population was 181,851, making it the least populous county in Delaware. The county seat is Dover, the state capital of Delaware. It i ...

Description and history

The house was built around 1820, and is a two-story, three-bay, brick dwelling. It has a gable roof and corbelled brick

cornice In architecture, a cornice (from the Italian ''cornice'' meaning "ledge") is generally any horizontal decorative moulding that crowns a building or furniture element—for example, the cornice over a door or window, around the top edge of a ...

. It has a -story, three-bay, wood-framed wing on the west gable end and a small one-story wing attached. and The facade is laid in

Flemish bond Brickwork is masonry produced by a bricklayer, using bricks and Mortar (masonry), mortar. Typically, rows of bricks called ''Course (architecture), courses'' are laid on top of one another to build up a structure such as a brick wall. Bricks ...

, while the other three walls are done in seven-course common bond. It was listed on the

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on June 27, 1983.

References

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Delaware Houses completed in 1820 Houses in Kent County, Delaware Kenton, Delaware National Register of Historic Places in Kent County, Delaware {{Delaware-NRHP-stub