Sunnyside is a historic plantation house located at Heathsville, Northumberland County, Virginia. It was built about 1822, and is a two-story, single-pile, central-passage-plan

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style brick I-house. It is topped by a gabled standing seam metal roof and has a two-story kitchen addition and a two-story rear addition. The front facade features a one-story, flat-roofed

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featuring paired Doric order columns. Also on the property are the contributing former smokehouse, dairy, guest house (formerly a kitchen), carriage house,

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Heathsville Historic District Heathsville Historic District is a national historic district located at Heathsville, Northumberland County, Virginia. The district includes 81 contributing buildings, 12 contributing sites, 4 contributing structures, and 4 contributing objects ...

. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

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Plantation houses in Virginia Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Federal architecture in Virginia Houses completed in 1822 Houses in Northumberland County, Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Northumberland County, Virginia Individually listed contributing properties to historic districts on the National Register in Virginia 1822 establishments in Virginia {{NorthumberlandCountyVA-NRHP-stub