The main house was built between 1745 and 1772, and is a 1+1⁄2-story, five-bay, single-pile, center hall, frame dwelling.

Silver Heels, perhaps his most famous race horse, was listed among other Thoroughbreds in the inventory of his estate taken after his death in 1772.

According to tradition, a walking cane that belonged to US President William Henry Harrison, a nephew of the builder, once hung over one of the mantels in the house.

[1] The fields surrounding Hunting Quarter were planted in longleaf pines in the early 2010s.

This article about a property in Sussex County, Virginia on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.