Speed the Plough is a farm in Amherst County, Virginia near the village of Elon, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The property was sold out of the Dearing family about 1915 and the land was converted to an orchard by the Montrose Fruit Company, abandoning the house and most buildings.

His partner, George Stevens (1868–1941), built a stone summer residence, the Rock Cottage, on the property.

The house was expanded in 1927 by the Lea family with a porch to the front and a one-story addition on the north with a sitting room-dining room and a kitchen.

[3] The Rock Cottage was built by local builder Samuel Belk about 1933 at some distance from the main house.

George Stevens engaged an architect from New York to design the house as an English hunting lodge on the site of the farm's old kitchen.

The room is furnished with bookshelves, one of which opens to reveal a hidden spiral iron stair to the basement.

The 1933 bank barn is set on a concrete foundation with a small milking parlor and accommodations for horses on the lower level and a farm equipment storage loft above.

After an inheritance dispute, the property, now 282 acres (114 ha), passed to John R. Irvine of Bedford, Virginia, who sold it in 1835 to Charles Ellis of Richmond.

By then the property was already known as "Speed the Plough," a saying associated with success or luck in farming, and the name of a fifteenth-century English song.

Jane died in 1910, and her only surviving child, Addie Dearing Cox, sold the land to the Montrose Fruit Company of New York in 1915.

George C. Stevens was a New York representative of Lloyd's of London, and liked the place so much that he entered into partnership with the Leas and built the Rock Cottage.