Woodfork 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 Charlotte Court House,

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. It was built in 1829, and is a three-story, five bay brick dwelling with a gable roof in the

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style. The front and rear facades feature one bay porches with hipped roofs supported by

Tuscan order The Tuscan order (Latin ''Ordo Tuscanicus'' or ''Ordo Tuscanus'', with the meaning of Etruscan order) is one of the two classical orders developed by the Romans, the other being the composite order. It is influenced by the Doric order, but with u ...

columns. Also on the property is a contributing a barn and four historic sites: two graveyards, the remains of a brick kiln, and the remains of a barn. an
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in 2002.

References

Plantation houses in Virginia Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Federal architecture in Virginia Houses completed in 1829 Houses in Charlotte County, Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Charlotte County, Virginia {{CharlotteCountyVA-NRHP-stub