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Nationai ' arx service <br /> National Register of Historic Places 027 <br /> Continuation Sheet <br /> Section number _ Page 3 <br /> 5 . Garage and Laboratory . 1940s . noncontributing building <br /> Southeast of the Faucett House is a long one - story frame garage and <br /> workshed built in the 1940s . In the 1950s the workshed was converted <br /> into a laboratory for use in bird - banding by its new owner , Dr . Charles <br /> Blake . <br /> 6 . Greenhouse . 1950s . Noncontributing building <br /> In the 1950s , Mrs . Charles Blake , the present owner , had this one - story <br /> metal and glass greenhouse built just east of the garage . <br /> 7 . Rose and Perennial Garden . 1950s . Noncontributing site <br /> In the 1950s D'r . and Mrs . Charles Blake began to landscape the yard southwest <br /> of the Faucett House into a rose and perennial garden . This garden . now <br /> comprises nearly two acres and is well - known as one of the finest heritage <br /> rose gardens in North Carolina . The surrounding 200 acres of woodland <br /> in the ownership of Mrs . Charles Blake , present owner , is a local wildlife preserve <br /> and bird habitat . The Blakes named the farm " Chatwood " because of their <br /> interest in birds . <br /> 8 . Section, of " Great Road " roadbed and ford . 18th century . Contributing sote <br /> The old highway between the Faucett House and dill with its river ford , long <br /> a state -maintained road ( S . R . 1328 ) , is now closed , and the Faucett House , <br /> Mill , and Cottage are secluded from commercial traffic . The old road ( variously <br /> named the " Great Road , " " Buffaloe Road , " " King ' s Highway , " " Oxford - Salisbury <br /> Road , " " Old Durham - Greensboro Stage Road , " and " County Home Road " ) appears <br /> on the earliest maps of the area and is locally associated with the movement of <br /> Cornwallis ' army and Revolutionary forces . The road is always prominently <br /> mentioned in deed transactions for this property . Though now a private lane , <br /> this portion of the old highway is identifiable because the roadbed is <br /> eroded several feet below ground level all the way to the Eno River and the <br /> site of the river - ford . <br />