Yates Tavern 2
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Yates Tavern just south of Gretna, Pittsylvania County, Virginia has an uncertain date, possibly built circa 1750. It served as both a residence and a tavern/inn. It’s a weatherboarded two-story frame building, 16 feet by 24 feet, the first floor containing two rooms, one large and one small. On one side of the gable roof is an exterior chimney made of rubble; the stack is brick and has a corbelled cap. Fenestration is limited with a single 4/4 window on both the front and rear facades. The loft has limited lighting, two fixed 4-light windows in the gable show in the photo; I assume a similar placement of windows exists in the other gable end. It has an English basement with 2-foot thick rock walls; this area served as the kitchen. Access to the floor above was by ladder to a trap door. The most unusual feature is a 10-inch jetty on the long sides of the second floor, ostensibly to provide more space in this area. This structural device was used in medieval and Elizabethan English architecture. The protrusions are possibly not an original feature but a result of later remodeling and enlarging of an existing structure. It has been deemed a blockhouse because of the jetties and is apparently unique in the state of Virginia. Yates Tavern was placed on National Register of Historic Places December 19, 1974 with reference number 74002143.
Old photos of the building (as part of the Historic American Buildings Survey [HABS] ) are at the Library of Congress site:
memory.loc.gov/pnp/habshaer/va/va0800/va0824/photos/16483...
memory.loc.gov/pnp/habshaer/va/va0800/va0824/photos/16483...
memory.loc.gov/pnp/habshaer/va/va0800/va0824/photos/16484...
The nomination form to the NRHP is at the Virginia Department of Historic Resources website—for a pdf file click Yates Tavern at www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Counties/register_Pittsylv...
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Yates Tavern 2
[Six images are in this set on Yates Tavern] This is a creative commons image, which you may freely use by linking to this page. Please respect the photographer and his work.
Yates Tavern just south of Gretna, Pittsylvania County, Virginia has an uncertain date, possibly built circa 1750. It served as both a residence and a tavern/inn. It’s a weatherboarded two-story frame building, 16 feet by 24 feet, the first floor containing two rooms, one large and one small. On one side of the gable roof is an exterior chimney made of rubble; the stack is brick and has a corbelled cap. Fenestration is limited with a single 4/4 window on both the front and rear facades. The loft has limited lighting, two fixed 4-light windows in the gable show in the photo; I assume a similar placement of windows exists in the other gable end. It has an English basement with 2-foot thick rock walls; this area served as the kitchen. Access to the floor above was by ladder to a trap door. The most unusual feature is a 10-inch jetty on the long sides of the second floor, ostensibly to provide more space in this area. This structural device was used in medieval and Elizabethan English architecture. The protrusions are possibly not an original feature but a result of later remodeling and enlarging of an existing structure. It has been deemed a blockhouse because of the jetties and is apparently unique in the state of Virginia. Yates Tavern was placed on National Register of Historic Places December 19, 1974 with reference number 74002143.
Old photos of the building (as part of the Historic American Buildings Survey [HABS] ) are at the Library of Congress site:
memory.loc.gov/pnp/habshaer/va/va0800/va0824/photos/16483...
memory.loc.gov/pnp/habshaer/va/va0800/va0824/photos/16483...
memory.loc.gov/pnp/habshaer/va/va0800/va0824/photos/16484...
The nomination form to the NRHP is at the Virginia Department of Historic Resources website—for a pdf file click Yates Tavern at www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Counties/register_Pittsylv...
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License