Woodbourne 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 Roxobel,

Bertie County, North Carolina Bertie County ( , with both syllables stressed) is a county located in the northeast area of the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 17,934. Its county seat is Windsor. The county was created in 1722 as Berti ...

. The two-story, frame main block was built about 1810, with one-story frame wings added in 1819. The front facade features a temple form, two-story, three-bay central pedimented pavilion. It is sheathed in weatherboard and sits on a brick foundation. Also on the property is a contributing dairy. It was added to the

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in 1971.

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