The Hermitage, also known as Tillery 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 e ...

located near Tillery,

Halifax County, North Carolina Halifax County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 48,622. Its county seat is Halifax. Halifax County is part of the Roanoke Rapids, NC Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is al ...

. It was built about 1810, and is a tripartite house that consists of a two-story, three-bay, pedimented central block flanked by one-story, two-bay, wings. An exterior end chimney rises at the end of each wing and at the rear of the very long central block. It was listed on the

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in 1975.

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Plantation houses in North Carolina Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Houses completed in 1810 Houses in Halifax County, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Halifax County, North Carolina {{HalifaxCountyNC-NRHP-stub