It was built in 1771 as the main residence of Isaac Read (1739–1777), a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses.

It is a frame dwelling consisting of a five-bay, single-pile, two-story main section flanked by two-bay one-story wings.

[3] One of its former owners was Thomas Jackson Charlton IV, a physician from Savannah, Georgia.

[4] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

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