Mountain View Farm | |
Designated Other1: | Virginia Landmarks Register |
Designated Other1 Date: | September 19, 1996[1] |
Designated Other1 Number: | 005-0011 |
Designated Other1 Num Position: | bottom |
Coordinates: | 37.6422°N -78.9861°W |
Built: | c., 1831 |
Builder: | Col. Hugh Rose, Paul Carrington Cabell |
Architecture: | Colonial, Georgian |
Added: | September 3, 1997 |
Refnum: | 96001453 |
Mountain View Farm, also known as Spencer Plantation and Mountain View Farm at Rebec Vineyards, is a historic home and farm located near Clifford, Amherst County, Virginia. The property includes an 18th-century mansion, built about 1777, a 19th-century cottage and five other supporting buildings. The main house is a standard timber frame, two-story, three-bay, I-house with a rear ell addition. It is sheathed in weatherboard with end chimneys. It was moved to its present site in 1831. The cottage is a one-room building with a lean-to shed addition. It was originally used as a doctor's office by Dr. Paul Carrington Cabell, and probably dates to the 1830s or 40s. Also on the property are the contributing well house, a playhouse (originally a chicken coop), a smokehouse, an ice house, carriage house, and a chicken coop.[2] The property has been home to Rebec Vineyards since 1987.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.