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NPS Form 10 - 900 - a OMB No . 1024 - 0018 ( 8 - 86 ) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section 7 Page 3 Woodville Historic District Bertie County , North Carolina NC 2b . (B) Playhouse. c. 1960 . Small 1 - story frame side- gable building set on concrete block piers, with exposed rafter tails, 4/4 sash, and plain weatherboard . This was built by Burges Griffin . NC 2c. (B) former Woodville Post Office. early 19th century . Small , 1 - story front-gabled frame building that was moved to the rear of the house lot from an unknown location, perhaps from directly on the main road . The framework features straight saw marks and handmade T-nails indicating construction prior to the mi & 19th century . The plan contains two rooms with a central brick chimney . Raking cornices finish the gable ends, side eaves are boxed . Four- over-four sash windows illuminate the building . It is extremely deteriorated and overgrown . C 3 . (B) Averitt-Pugh-Thompson House. c . 1860 , c . 1917 . This antebellum house has a classic Greek Revival4talianate form : two - story, three-bay double pile frame house with hipped roof, two interior brick chimneys, and large windows with Italianate hood molds . However, it underwent a heavy remodeling in the Craftsman Tudor style about 1917 . Exterior features that are apparently original include the high brick pier foundation, boxed eaves, and hood molds . Other exterior finish such as the leaded glass entrance probably dates from the remodeling . . The main entrance consists of a double door, each leaf with horizontal panels, with a transom and sidelights of leaded glass in the Tudor style . A front-gabled one-bay porch shelters the entrance, with Doric columns . This apparently replaced a full4acade one- story porch built about 1917 . The fenestration, large paired one- over- one sash on the upper main facade and large single 2/2 sash on the side elevations, probably date from the remodeling . The house is covered in plain siding . A one- story hipped rear ell containing a large kitchen apparently dates from the remodeling , new finish about 1917 to car out the Craftsman Tudor style . One enters The interior was given a new floor plan and w carry a large living room, with smaller parlor to the right . Between the two rear rooms is a wide stair hall , with a Craftsman style stair ascending to the second floor. All interior doors are c . 1917 replacements of five horizontal panels, with one set of French doors . Original Greek RevivaUltalianate style mantels remain in the entrance room, right rear room, and in the four upstairs bedrooms . Each of these features pilasters supporting an arched lintel and molded shelf the entrance hall mantel is of slate and marble ; the others are of wood . Local citizens have always believed that the house was built by Colonel Jesse Averitt, who purchased this tract in 1820 . He lived here in the early 1830s, but moved to Florida, and in 1848 sold the 120 acre tract, "being the place whereon I formerly lived" to Joseph James Pugh (Bertie Co . HH2O2) . Pugh, the son of William Alston Pugh, apparently constructed the present house about 1860 to replace the earlier house, and lived here with his family until his death in 1880 . William Clark Thompson ( 183 & 1895 ), a son of Lewis Thompson, purchased it , but it was vacant or rented to tenants until Thompson' s son Lewis Whitmel Thompson remodeled it in 1917 and lived here from 1918 to his death in the 1950s . In the late 1950s Lewis Thompson' s widow, his son and his wife were still living here . Roswell and Emily West are the current owners . C 3a . (B) Meat House. c. 1860 . Small front-gabled meathouse with steep gabled roof, raking cornices, plain siding, front batten door .