Milford Plantation, Accessory Building, Wedgefield-Rimini Road, Pinewood

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bellum plantations of South Carolina. PART I. HISTORICAL INFORMATION A. Physical History: 1. Original and subsequent owners (chain of title) John Lawrence Manning. 2. Date of erection: c. PART II. ARCHITECTURAL INFORMATION This outbuilding is one of a similar pair placed symmetrically south of the plantation house. It is of stucco on brick, one story in height, by in plan, with a flat roof. The foundations are low, terminating in a plain water table. Walls are marked off with simulated stone jointing; at each corner there is a pilaster strip. One long side (toward the main axis of the house, and parallel to it) contains two rectangular door openings, without trim, with four-panel doors. The other long side contains two rectangular windows.

At each end there is a window between a pair of pilaster strips. Sash are double hung, six lights over six lights, provided on the outside with louvered shutters. At the top of the wall is a slightly projecting plain frieze, above which are a moulded cornice of slight projection and a low parapet. At each end the parapet is treated with a projecting block having a low "gabled" upper edge. A chimney projects above the center of the roof. The interior is divided into two rooms of slightly different size by a transverse partition; a fireplace projects from the center of this partition Into the larger room. A doorway at one side of the fireplace connects the two rooms. MIIPORD PLANTATION ACCESSORY BUILDING IiABS No.

(Page 2) The two outbuildings are placed south of the plantation house, metrically about the main (north-south) axis., with their long dimension north and south. They appear to be in good condition, and are under- going minor repairs as of this date. Prepared by John C. Poppeliers Architectural Historian National Park Service Harley J. McKee Professor of Architecture Syracuse University April 28,