Coleman House is a historic home located at

Lewes Lewes () is the county town of East Sussex, England. The town is the administrative centre of the wider Lewes (district), district of the same name. It lies on the River Ouse, Sussex, River Ouse at the point where the river cuts through the Sou ...

Sussex County, Delaware Sussex County is a county in the southern part of the U.S. state of Delaware, on the Delmarva Peninsula. As of the 2020 census, the population was 237,378, making it the state's second most populated county behind New Castle and ahead of Ke ...

. It dates to about 1815, and consists of a two-story, three-bay, frame main section with -story, frame wing. Both sections are sheathed in

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and have gable roofs. It is an outstanding example of the early-19th-century rural architecture once common in the Lewes area. and ' It was added to the

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in 1977.

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* Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Delaware Houses completed in 1815 Houses in Lewes, Delaware Historic American Buildings Survey in Delaware National Register of Historic Places in Sussex County, Delaware {{Delaware-NRHP-stub