Carolina country house

I am visiting with my grandma at the moment - she lives in Randolph County, NC, which is about a 90 minute drive from my home in Durham. The region is mostly rural, with cornfield rows and cotton fields dotted with old pre-WW2 tobacco barns and farmhouses, as well as single and doublewide trailers and overpriced country houses with their big front porches.

When driving these back roads, it's easy to feel like the landscape here has always been this way: farm and barns with pockets of trees and the occasional gas station or grocery store. Understandably, there's a number of hidden gems. I wish I could post all the pictures here, but this is one of my favorite discoveries.

I don't know much about traditional architecture out here in the country, but I know enough to recognize that this style of building was around during the American Civil War and even before then. This is the "classic" country style farmhouse ... the warm timber, stone chimney style - sometimes with a porch and sometimes without. This one is two stories, so a grander house than most of the single level ones.

Near the house, I also photographed a tobacco barn, smokehouse and what may have been the outhouse / toilet. I'd love to know how old this house is but there was no one around to ask.