Yorkshire House is a historic home located at Warrenton,

Fauquier County, Virginia Fauquier is a county in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 72,972. The county seat is Warrenton. Fauquier County is in Northern Virginia and is a part of the Washington metropolitan area. History In 16 ...

. It was built in 1938–1939, and is a two-story, 13 bay, brick dwelling in the

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style. It features a low-pitched slate roof, a horizontal emphasis, a curved corner with continuous steel windows, a large glass block window, an elliptical bay window with steel casements and a foliated, geometric, metal

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on the rear balcony. Also on the property are the contributing brick and- stucco garage, a banked stone pump house, and a frame storage shed (c. 1939). an
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in 2005."

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Modernist architecture in Virginia Houses completed in 1939 Houses in Fauquier County, Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Fauquier County, Virginia 1939 establishments in Virginia Brick buildings and structures in Virginia {{FauquierCountyVA-NRHP-stub