Address Restricted, Oxford, North Carolina. County/parish: Granville.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places April 28, 1988. NRIS 88000422.
Part of Granville County MPS (NRIS 64500360).
8 contributing buildings. 2 contributing sites. 1 contributing structure.
Locust Lawn is a historic tobacco plantation house and national historic district located near Oxford, Granville County, North Carolina. It was built about 1855 by Armistead Ravenscroft Burwell, a descendant of the prominent Burwell Family of Virginia and is a two-story, three-bay, T-shaped Greek Revival style dwelling. It has a two-story rear ell, one-story kitchen wing, brick cellar and central front porch. Also on the property are the contributing six log tobacco barns, two frame barns, frame corncrib, overseer's house, and Burwell Family cemetery.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
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