Wheatland is a historic plantation home located near Loretto,
Essex County, Virginia
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. It was built between 1849 and 1851, and is a two-story, five-bay, frame dwelling with a hipped roof in the
Greek Revival
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style. It has a double-pile central hall plan, and features two-story porches on the principal facades. A simple one-story gable-roofed frame wing contains a kitchen. The property includes a contributing wharf (1916),
smokehouse
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It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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