I'm a refugee from Loudoun County. I sold a one bedroom condo for an ungodly sum and came down to not-so-laid-back Cary, NC. Nice enough place but too Mr. Beaver like.
When I first came to Loudoun, it was rolling hills, cow farms, cornfields, old barns, country stores, and small sleepy towns where a dog could sleep in peace in the middle of the street.
Here's an old, old place, very typical of old Loudoun houses, painted brick, some parts before Civil War, some even before the Revolutionary War. Not restored, just lived in continuously for for over three hundred years by different families and owners. It's a big house. The church had it for awhile and they added on a wedding chapel and a preacher's study. It was even bigger then that but the kitchen addition from the 1890's had to be taken down. The materials from the demolition was used to build a small cooling house.
The barn was built in the early Twentieth Century, but typical of many structures of the time in Loudoun, quite of bit of it came from an earlier barn, and the older posts and beams have been remarkably free from rot.
The garage is unusual in that it is a post and beam oak frame filled in with oak studs and poplar siding. We used concrete nails if we wanted to hang anything up.
This grey building is just a storage shed, gray, T-111 siding and just shows how structures are added as needs dictate.
Unique to the area. is the use of tin roofs, or more properly, the standing seam metal roof. The roof on the house dates from the 1880s and and gets a fresh coat of paint every ten years.
This is pretty rare that so much has survived here, not untouched, but surely appreciated by it's occupants over the years.
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