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N ►`S form 10 wo a OMB Apnmvnl No 1024WMIA (9 66) 21 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register_ of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Haude Faucette lJouse Section number — Page 1 or acme County NC Section 7 : Architectural Description The 1Iaude lFaucette douse is located in a rural area five 1Wiles northeast of IT ' llsborough , the Orange County seat , anti approximately three miles north of of the unincorporated village of Efland . The property is known locally as the Maude Faucette House , after the last descendant of the builder , David Faucette . She lived in the house until her death in 1953 at the age of ninetv - seven . The house. is also known The � lrns , the Warne given to the :property by Dr . and Mrs . Wiley Shearin who purchased, the house in 1977 from lovaude , who remain in the house until 'tier death . Until recently the house was surrounded by large elm trees wrlicl.Z have since succumbed to age and disease . It is surrounded now by walnut , pecan and rea t:) ud tress and larc.; e American boxwoods . The house faces north and stands on a grassy bluff which overlooks the Eno River at the east and the bridge which crosses the river on Malls 2 � i11 woad ( SI? 1336 ; . bane load ( SR 13. 37 ; biseicts the five acre tract at tree west . The c . 1320 Faucette house is a vernacular interpretation of the Federal style : a two - story , gable - roofed , frame far "thouse with a raid to late - nineteenth century 1-li ? - roofed front porch with turned posts and sawn brackets . It rests on a fieldstone foundation . has exterior - end common - bond brick chirmneys with slender free - standing s tacks , and a rear frame kitchen wing witil an exterior enct chimney and a rear screened - in porch . A one - story side wine was added to the east end of the house in the 1970s . The main bloc }; of the single - pile douse is three - !Da j� s wide any t �,� o - bays deep and has plain boXed eaves . The svrmrmetrical facade or the house has six - over - four windows on the first story and six - over - six, sash on the second story . The wincdows are . set in r:lolc? ecd rraimes with plain sills and Greer: Revival style corner L) locks . The Windows in the 1970s east wine; are ornamented I ) y replicas of the corner blocks . The main entrance is a six panel door . It is protected by a Victorian - style screen door with carved brackets , probably added when *the porch was replaced. Date of this porch is unit� nown , but probably c . 18001 . No original outbuildings survive . Family tradition :maintains that a GLetacElt� �i , kitchen building , rlo longer in CO stence , stood in the northeast corner of t : le bac ': yard . lwo Sra (-111 1 at - faineI eent :z century cottages .•sere rmovecoll onto tine t � ro � erty inthe earl �� 1r� �:� 0 �� . knioic is used as a garden CUi:, tacrC3 any? 1 lot 'tee? 1rZ oil . : ) 1C . , / c�? rt � � Tl tirC? :� olrt: i'1 s'(I ? of talc'. hot ! .i !: .