Piedmont Historic Homes

234 Pollard Lane, Mocksville, Davie County

• Sold for $1.165 million on December 17, 2024 (listed at $1.3 million)
  • Sold to a buyer identified as a North Carolina LLC, but the mailing address is in suburban Philadelphia.
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,354 square feet, 122.50 acres
• Price/square foot: $495
• Built in 1883
• Listed October 10, 2024
• Last sale: $16,500, June 1961
• Neighborhood: Located 7 1/2 miles northeast of Mocksville off U.S. 158
• Listing: The house overlooks a 1-acre pond.
  • “24 acres in open grass fields, 64 in old growth hardwoods, 14 in successional growth, and remainder in areas such as roads, buildings, creeks, and a powerline R/W.”
  • “The original structure was built in 1883, and it has seen multiple renovations and additions over the years.” Much of the historic character has been lost to those renovations and additions, some of which, though not historic, look badly dated now.
  • The property has been owned for the past 63 years by James Daniel Pollard (1926-2018) and Mildred B. Pollard (1927-2012). It is being sold by one of their children. James served in the Army during World War II and received the Bronze Star. He worked for McLean Trucking.

214 Barnwell Road, Caswell County

• Sold for $520,000 on December 6, 2024 (listed at $520,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,244 square feet, 10.35 acres
• Price/square foot: $234
• Built in 1898 (per listing; see note)
• Listed October 16, 2024
• Last sale: $60,000, February 1990
• Neighborhood: Located about 3.8 miles north of Prospect Hill and 3.3 miles south of Hightowers, just off N.C. Highway 86. The property has a Prospect Hill mailing address.
• Note: County records give the date as 1959, which looks wrong. 1898 is more likely.
  • The property includes a pond.

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1040 Lakeshore Lane, Stokes County

• Sold for $249,000 on September 17, 2024 (originally $250,000)
• 1 bedroom, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 589 square feet, 10.64 acres (four lots)
• Price/square foot: $423
• Built in 1890
• Listed January 14, 2023
• Last sale: $250,000, September 2022
• Neighborhood: Located in the northwest corner of Stokes County near the Virginia border. It has a Mount Airy mailing address but is about 16 miles northeast of the town and 23 miles northwest of Danbury.
• Note: Very few properties are being listed at below the price paid by the owners.
  • Located in a gated community on Big Dan Lake.
  • The listing says the property includes a three-car, detached carport, fire pit and walking/riding trails. A cleared, elevated section of the property contains a potential building site that could support a three-bedroom house.

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6918 Walnut Grove Church Road, Orange County
The McKee-Miller Farm

• Sold for $950,000 on September 12, 2024 (originally $1.297 million)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,447 square feet (per county), 17 acres
• Price/square foot: $276
• Built in 1864
• Listed August 8, 2023
• Last sale: $250,000, January 1995
• Note: The house has a Hurdle Mills mailing address but is in Orange County, about 9 miles north of Hillsborough.
• The property includes a 1-bedroom, 1-bathroom guest house; a four-horse stable and tack room; three 1-acre paddocks; an 1,844 square-foot hay barn; a 3,030 square foot workshop; goldfish pond; apple, pear, cherry, pecan and fig trees; and chicken coops.
• The listing shows only 2,702 square feet. It says the house has 646 square feet of unheated space.

274 Bethesda Church Road, Caswell County

• Sold for $495,000 on July 30, 2024 (listed at $495,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,652 square feet, 24.79 acres
• Price/square foot: $300
• Built in 1856
• Listed May 14, 2024
• Last sale: $82,500, October 1990
• Neighborhood: Just south of U.S. 158, about 10 miles west of Yanceyville and 8 miles east of Ruffin. It has a Ruffin mailing address.
• Note: The property includes a barn with hayloft, tool shed, corn crib, tractor shed and an old detached kitchen. There is also a 2-bedroom, 2-bathroom mobile home on the property.

1255 Luna Trail Road, Sandy Ridge, Stokes County

• Sold for $138,500 on June 28, 2024
  • Sold subject to a conservation easement.
  • The buyer is a company owned by Greensboro developer Roy Carroll.
• 1,119 square feet, 28.85 acres
• Price/square foot: $124
• Built in 1860
• Last sale: $10,000, October 1973
• Note: The property was a bequest to the Piedmont Land Conservancy.
  • “Our intent is to sell the property subject to a conservation easement via a request for proposals process. This will allow us to conserve these 29 acres and use the proceeds to further other land conservation projects.”
  • The cabin is described as very rustic.
  • The owners since 1973 have been Patricia Anne Griffin (1941-2021) and Frances R. Sandlin (1942-2023). Patricia graduated from Reidsville High School class of 1959 and attended the first Girl Scout Round Up in 1956. She was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the Women’s College, now UNCG. Patricia taught math in Virginia and at Page High School in Greensboro before teaching at UNCG. She was a founder of Habitat for Humanity of Stokes County and served on the board of directors.
  • Frances Anna Rand Sandlin was born in Wisconsin and graduated from Texas Women’s University. She was an occupational therapist.

1361 Ledbetter Road, Mayodan, Rockingham County

• Sold for $150,000 on June 25, 2024 (listed at $180,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,766 square feet, 17.48 acres
• Price/square foot: $85
• Built in 1912
• Listed April 30, 2024
• Last sale: Not found in online records
• Neighborhood: Located 3 1/2 miles north of Mayodan, just off Ayersville Road
• Listing: “Home needs a lot of repairs and probably requires a CASH buyer. No well. Most of the home is unheated. … Large older workshop with lots of potential.”

21552 S. N.C. Highway 109, Denton, Davidson County

• Sold for $565,000 on June 6, 2024 (listed at $599,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,954 square feet, 46.33 acres
• Price/square foot: $289
• Built in 1912
• Listed April 15, 2023
• Last sale: $575,000, October 2023
• Neighborhood: Located 4 miles south of Denton, just south of the Handy community
• Note: Sold at a $10,000 loss eight months after the previous sale

9056 Mount Carmel Road, Stokesdale, Guilford County
The John and Ida Fulp House

• Sold for $480,000 on June 2, 2024 (listed at $500,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,444 square feet, 13.85 acres
• Price/square foot: $196
• Built in 1938
• Listed May 10, 2024
• Last sale: $215,000, October 14, 2016
• Neighborhood: Located in the northwest corner of Stokesdale, near Belews Lake.
• Note: The property includes a barn and a garage/workshop.
  • The property was bought in 1906 by John Walker Fulp (1857-1924) and Ida R. James “Aunt Ida” Fulp (1866-1960). It was sold after Ida’s death.

381 Huffines Mill Road, Rockingham County

• Sold for $645,000 on May 24, 2024 (listed at $675,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,376 square feet, 40.08 acres
• Price/square foot: $271
• Built in 1926
• Listed March 5, 2024
• Last sale: $347,500, September 2018
• Neighborhood: Located about 12 1/2 miles east of Reidsville, just off N.C. 65, and about 20 miles north of Greensboro.
• Note: The property has a Reidsville mailing address.
  • The house has an attached two-car garage. The property includes a log cabin and an RV-size garage with workshop.

343 Hamlin Ford Road, Dobson, Surry County

• Sold for $180,000 on April 16, 2024 (auction)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,016 square feet, 21.8 acres (see note)
• Price/square foot: $177
• Built in 1940
• Last sale: Online records are not completely clear, but most likely the two tracts were bought in two transactions in 1922 and 1939.
• Neighborhood: Located 4.7 miles southwest of Dobson.
• Note: The current owners, siblings Glenn U. Draughn (1925-2009) and Fern Draughn (1931-2021), inherited the property in 1991 from their parents, Samuel James Draughn (1899-1984) and Grace Edmonds Draughn (1904-1991).

• Sold for $211,000 on April 11, 2024 (listed at $199,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 2,568 square feet, 11.04 acres
• Price/square foot: $82
• Built in 1892
• Listed March 4, 2024
• Last sale: $1,400, December 1936
• Note: The property includes a barn and a tobacco barn.
• The property was bought in 1936 by Myrtle Lee Kiser (1910-1991). She worked for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company for 36 years. She left the property to her sister Erma L. Kiser (1913-2001). Erma also worked for RJR. The property is being sold by the heirs of a nephew.
• Something to ask about: The property appears to have no road frontage. Access appears to be via a driveway cutting through another property to Spainhour Mill Road.

• Sold for $165,000 on March 22, 2024 (listed at $168,000)
• 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, square feet not recorded, 20.12 acres (per county)
• Price/square foot: Unknown
• Built in 1940 (per listing; see notes)
• Listed February 9, 2024
• Last sales: $110,000, February 2, 2024; $85,000, February 2022
• Neighborhood: Located about 11 miles east of Westfield, not far from Tory’s Den Cave.
• Listing: “The cabin contains a minisplit for HVAC, a sleeping and storage loft, bathroom with shower, and a kitchen with wood burning fireplace. The electricity is installed underground and is metered at the cabin. There is an additional transformer box behind the cabin on the main ridge for future homesite. Cabin is connected to underground septic system, and water is provided by a rain water collection system and pressure tank. New owner has the option to install a water treatment system to make the rain water potable, use one of the nearby springs for their water source or drill a well.”
  • The property includes “mature hardwood forest, long range views (leaf off), and several springs and creeks.”
• Note: Sold in February 2024 and listed for sale seven days later.
  • Owned by an LLC based in Colorado, as was the last owner.
  • Although the listing says the cabin was built in 1940, county records show no building on the property (there does appear to be one, though).
  • The deed and online listings show 20.69 acres.
  • The 1940 construction date appears on only one online listing. The actual construction date is relatively insignificant because the cabin has been extensively renovated.

4363 Big Oak Church Road, Eagle Springs, Moore County

• Sold for $367,000 on March 4, 2024 (originally $412,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 950 square feet, 7.75 acres
• Price/square foot: $386
• Built in 1932
• Listed November 18, 2023
• Last sale: $133,000, September 2016
• Note: The property has an Eagle Springs address but is about 4 miles north in northwestern Moore County.
  • The property was in the Cole-Blake family for more than 100 years. In 1903, Lovda Cole Blake (1873-1954) bought the property from Joseph Burl Cole (1869-1949) and Margaret Bethel Blake Cole (1871-1930). Lovda was married to David W. Blake (1875-1959); his name wasn’t on the deed. Some familial connection seems likely, but its exact nature isn’t identifiable from online records.
  • In 1951, Lovda and David sold the property to their daughter Margaret Cole Whitley. She owned it until 2001.