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The Clarke House (The Plains, VA)

The Clarke House

Main Street
The Plains, Virginia

From The Plains Historic District National Register of Historic Places Registration Form:

“The Clarke House also located on Main Street, was constructed ca. 1855 and is a two-story, three-bay, frame I-house with Italianate detailing in its cornice, front porch, and door surround. It features a stone foundation, smooth stucco exterior, and a standing-seam-metal, low-pitched gable roof. The front entrance has a transom with lozenge-shaped lights and two-light sidelights and a door surround with paneled pilasters on plinths and large pilasters on the outside of the doorway that have guilloche trim. The surround is sheltered by a three-bay, hipped-roofed front porch with paneled wood posts on concrete plinths, decorative brackets, a wooden paneled ceiling, and denticulated interior and exterior cornice.  The two exterior-end stone chimneys are parged at the top and have coursed rubble stone bases.  A two-story wing extends to the rear.”