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0M6 AFPrm nl Nt 1024-001 A Nrs dorm 10. 91N1 n (P Ps1 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet ' Iatzre aucette rTouse Section number Page Orange County , NC 2000 . He notes only a few local exaM ? les of the two - story frawte farmhouse , among t ':•hein the , Zatthew Atwater' house located in the Qhite Cross Community of orange county . Another , notable slightly earlier example is c . 1792 Oakland , located in neighboring Person County . Most surviving WE houses are gable - roofed structures , usually wits shed - roofed front *porches and exterior - end CPli aneys . V`Aost of the ctwellin (Ts are one - bay . 001, deep and three bays - wide . Usually the stairs to the second: story are enclosed and? located: in a corner of one of the f irst - story rooms , and are often enclosed by a door . The two - story arrangeiaent of th ` aucctt ; e douse is unusual in that doors in both #First - flooL rooi�: s provide access to the enclosed , centrally - locates' staircase , . which rises rotu the roar to the front . 11".1a mantelpi eces caisplay decorative sawnW=. ... , rather than the :ooze usual rended mantels Tounc' in the IIi11s :borough area . The Faucette [louse has been little altered since the Tlictorian - era hid roof �= ront porch was aucea d . The small one - story east wing added in the 1970s blends in alnmost iiilDe rceptibly With the original ::ta. in '� lccrc , sharing the same type taulti - pa ne sash windows ornai.lenoted :with Greed Revival corner blocks ` found:', on the original _,lain bloc ': . . The original setting on the l ) an '.: s Of' the Eno �? iver is nicturesc; ue and evocativ wl of the li .n. of a srnall farmer of the Eno River Valley in the na. rly nineteenth century .