The plantation dates to a 1651 land grant to the Perrin family by Governor William Berkeley.

John Perrin built the house on a point of land overlooking the York River directly across from Yorktown in 1716 with plans reputed to have been drawn by Christopher Wren.

It is a 2+1⁄2-story, five-bay, gable roofed brick dwelling in the Georgian style.

Little England is one of Virginia's least altered and best-preserved colonial plantation homes.

[1] This article about a property in Gloucester County, Virginia on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.