Fenwick Hall

Fenwick Fenwick Hall or Castle is a 1730 built on Johns Iceland at the Stono River from James Iceland and Charleston house between River Road and Penneys Creek. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 23, 1972.

History

John Fenwick was a brother of Robert Fenwick and came from a family of the lower gentry in England. He acquired the plantation at Stono River to 1721st He built in 1730 the central rectangular part of the house.

His son Edward Fenwick inherited the plantation around 1750. He built the carriage house west of it and a barn east of the house. He imported and bred English thoroughbred and built a five-kilometer race track under the present Maybank Highway. During this time the plantation John's Iceland Stud was called. As Fenwick was known as a Tory, the property was confiscated during the American War of Independence. Part of it was restituted by the government in 1785.

In 1787 the plantation at Fenwicks cousin John Gibbes was sold. Around this time, the octagonal side wing was added. Daniel J. Townsend bought it in 1840; it remained until 1876 at the property of his family.

The house was in ruins in 1930. It was renovated by Victor Morawetz and his wife with the help of architects Simons and Lapham from Charleston.

Architecture

The two-story brick building in the Georgian style stands on a raised foundation. The original part of the house is about 12 long and 11 m wide. On the gable roof sits a roof terrace with a balustrade. The masonry was laid in Flemish bond. The mullioned windows with nine fields on the south side are for pushing, the shutters were replaced in the meantime.

This rectangular building part runs over five spans and has a Huguenot floor plan. The entrance on the south facade allows access to a common room. On the other hand, is a slightly smaller salon. The centrally located hall leading to the stairs at the back. Are the rear rooms on each side of the staircase. There is also an entrance to a room in the northwest corner of the octagonal cultivation of 1787., Which measures 15.25 meters in length and 5.5 m in width and comprises two by a staircase separate rooms.

The common room is plastered and papered. The other rooms on the ground floor are wood-paneled. Upstairs there are seven bedrooms, four of which are located in the original part of the building is also decorated with wood paneling.

When the building was renovated in 1931, the builder added in the east added a porch and a small two-story wing on the west side, who received a kitchen, a bedroom and a bathroom. A simpler input with cornice and two Doric columns with recessed, which replaced a 1787 added portico.

A watercolor view of Fenwick Hall from before the renovation is located in Greenville County Museum of Art

The two-story carriage house in the west of the main house has been converted into a garage. The stall in similar style no longer exists.