It has a five bay wide verandah supported by six slender Doric order columns.

Sedgewick Lewis bought the 1000 acre plantation in 1767 from Baronet John Colleton.

[3] A Revolutionary War skirmish occurred directly in front of the house when Colonel Wade Hampton (1752–1835) surprised a British force that had stopped at Lewisfield Plantation to await a paroled prisoner of war, Keating Simons, who was the owner of the plantation at the time.

[3] In 1948, Carpenter sold the plantation (by then increased to 2500 acres) to the Williams Furniture Corporation of Sumter, South Carolina.

This article about a property in Berkeley County, South Carolina on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.