Virginia Historic Homes | 1700–1799

Historic Homes for Sale Built in the 1700s

Virginia's eighteenth-century houses are among the oldest chapters of the Commonwealth's domestic life, from modest vernacular dwellings raised by hand to substantial Georgian residences that reflect the confidence of the colonial age. Few things in American real estate carry the weight of a house that has stood since before the Republic.

A house of the 1700s may be laid in brick or framed in timber, with a hall-parlor or center-passage plan, broad chimneys, paneled walls, early mantels, and wide-plank floors worn soft by generations of footsteps. Woodwork still bears the marks of the hand that shaped it, and the Georgian rooms keep the balance and proportion their builders prized. Others are quieter Virginia farmhouses, whose beauty lies in honest materials, fine craftsmanship, the outbuildings that still stand nearby, and the way the house rests in the countryside as though it grew there.

Browse historic homes for sale in Virginia dating from the 1700s, including country houses, farms, and estates from the colonial and early national periods. Each has survived for more than two centuries, and each is waiting for the next steward to carry it forward.

Pleasant Oak, circa 1780, a white clapboard historic home with dark shutters behind its weathered wooden sign
c.1760 Pleasant Oak | Bridget Archer, McLean Faulconer

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VIRGINIA HISTORIC HOMES | 1700s

Virginia Houses from the Eighteenth Century

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BUYING A HISTORIC HOME BUILT IN THE 1700s

Houses That Have Shaped the Virginia Landscape

A Virginia house that has survived from the 1700s is far more than an early residence. It may keep brickwork laid by hand, chimneys of generous size, original framing, paneled rooms, wide-board floors, and early millwork, along with the balanced proportions that Georgian builders prized. In the later years of the century, the detailing begins to lighten, anticipating the grace of the Federal style. On a country property, the house rarely stands alone. The barns, kitchens, smokehouses, and dependencies may still be nearby, with gardens, old roads, and stonework resting in the landscape as quiet evidence of how the land was once lived upon.

Buying a historic home requires looking carefully at what is original, what has changed, and how the house has been cared for across generations. Foundations, masonry, chimneys, framing, moisture, roofing, windows, electrical and plumbing systems, wells and septic systems, additions, barns and outbuildings, drainage, roads, acreage, and access all deserve careful review. Historic designations, preservation easements, conservation easements, development rights, and possible rehabilitation incentives should also be understood before making plans for the property.

VIRGINIA HISTORIC HOMES | 1700–1799

Listing, Marketing & Selling Historic Homes Built in the 1700s

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Historic Home Listing Specialist | Virginia

Selling Historic Homes Built in the 1700s

A house built in the 1700s carries a story that no new construction can tell, and the right buyer understands that they are not simply acquiring square footage. The architecture, the craftsmanship, the restoration, the setting, and the changes made by each generation all belong to that story, and each deserves to be presented with the care it has earned.

My Signature Marketing

A Brochure That Sells Before the Showing Even Starts

For every historic home I represent, I create a custom digital brochure, sometimes ten pages, sometimes closer to a hundred, depending on how complex the property is. It begins with the architecture and the careful work of restoration, then moves on to the gardens, the history of the families who lived here, and the way morning light crosses the floors and settles in the windows by afternoon. The aim is to give a buyer enough detail, and enough feeling, to fall in love with your home before they ever step through the door. Paired with a dedicated property page and professional video, the brochure becomes a portrait of the house itself: its history, the changes it has seen, and the quiet reasons it is so special.

For a house built in the 1700s, the brochure lingers over the details that only history can give: the original mantels and woodwork, the early brick or timber construction, the wide-plank floors and paneled rooms, and the great chimneys that anchor the house. It follows the later additions, the dependencies, and the gardens, and it shows how each period of the house's life left its own mark, so a buyer can read the house as one reads a well-kept record of the generations.

View examples of my property brochures, films, and dedicated property pages →

Always a leader, never a follower.

Marketing That Reaches Buyers Looking for an Eighteenth-Century Home

A house that has stood since the 1700s speaks to a particular kind of buyer, and my clients benefit from a network of websites built to find them. These buyers search by the life they hope to live: a historic estate, an equestrian property, quiet country living, a working farm. Among the sites are VirginiaHistoricEstates.com, VirginiaCountryLiving.com, CharlottesvilleCountryEstates.com, and CharlottesvilleEquestrianProperties.com. Many properties belong on more than one, and that overlap is deliberate. A colonial-era house with a barn and paddocks appears on VirginiaHistoricEstates.com and CharlottesvilleEquestrianProperties.com at the same time, so it reaches both the buyer who treasures hand-laid brick and early woodwork and the buyer who is looking for land and a place to keep horses. Each site holds a lasting place on the first page of Google, earned by design and not by chance. It is one small expression of how I work for my clients: I lead, and I do not follow.

Once your home's listing goes live, the work continues. I watch the traffic, read the inquiries, and pay close attention to who comes through the door and what draws their eye, whether it is the paneled rooms, the great chimneys, or the old gardens. When something can be improved, a photograph, a phrase, a page, I make the change. Most of this happens quietly, behind the scenes, so that the presentation of your home stays fresh and responsive for as long as it is on the market.

Getting it right from the start matters.

Pricing a Historic Property That Has No Exact Comparison

Pricing is a conversation we have together, and it begins with an honest look at the property: the architecture and its restoration, the condition of the house, the land around it, the setting, and the homes competing for the same buyer today. In the end, though, the price must speak to the market as it is now. Getting it right from the start matters a great deal. An overpriced home loses its momentum quickly, and the reductions that follow often lead to a lower sale than a thoughtful price would have achieved on the first day. My aim is to position your property with care, draw the qualified buyers who recognize its worth, and give them the confidence to act.

Online valuation tools can offer a quick ballpark, and they are a fair place to begin. But they are built on algorithms and comparable sales, and a house from the 1700s rarely fits that mold. No formula can weigh hand-laid brick, paneled rooms, and wide-plank floors, or measure what two centuries of careful keeping add to the whole. A property with no true comparison is precisely where an algorithm is most likely to miss. If you would like a real answer, let's meet at your property, walk through it together, and see it as a buyer will.

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An Exceptional Brokerage Behind the Listing

The Strength of McLean Faulconer

A house from the 1700s deserves a brokerage with real depth in the upper end of the Central Virginia market, and that is what stands behind my work. McLean Faulconer has ranked first in sales over $1 million in Albemarle County for the past twenty years, and first in sales over $2 million there for the past two. The firm has surpassed $1.5 billion in farm-and-estate sales.

Behind those figures are decades of trust: buyers and sellers, referring agents, attorneys, lenders, landowners, and other professionals who have worked alongside the firm through significant transactions across Central Virginia, including the careful sale of early and historic properties. For a seller, that circle of relationships reaches buyers nationwide and overseas, among them those who seek out a house that has stood since the colonial era.

McLean Faulconer also makes a substantial, ongoing investment in marketing: targeted digital campaigns, print publications, luxury-publication partnerships, social media, and a strong network of qualified buyers.

There is a quieter advantage as well, and it is one a one-person firm cannot offer. McLean Faulconer fully staffed active office of agents who give their working lives to farms, estates, historic homes, and land. We talk about our properties. We share buyers, trade knowledge, and put our heads together when a home needs a fresh approach. When your property comes to market, it is not one agent's effort but the combined attention, contacts, and experience of an entire office, all working toward the same result: a sale. That network is strong because it is used every day.

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Let's Make Sure the Right Buyer Finds Your Historic Home

Historic homes are not replaceable, and neither is the way they are marketed or sold. Your property deserves an agent who understands what it took to restore it, a brokerage with the reach to find the buyer who will love it the way you do, and a marketing budget built specifically for a property that has no exact comparison.

If you are thinking of selling, I would love to meet with you. And if you are not quite ready, that's alright too. Keep my number. When the time feels right, I'll be here.

Call Bridget Archer: (434) 981-4149 Schedule a Listing Appointment

Updated  ·  Saturday, October 17, 2026

All information is deemed reliable but not guaranteed, and is subject to errors, omissions, changes in price, prior sale, or withdrawal without notice.

For Historic Property Sellers

Historic Property Experience Matters. Let's Make It Work For You.

Bridget Archer, Central Virginia real estate agent

Bridget Archer

McLean Faulconer, Inc.

Some historic houses announce themselves. Others reveal themselves slowly. The balance of the architecture, the depth of a window, the sheen of old wood, and the placement of a garden, a barn, a guest house, a line of trees, or a distant view all complete the composition.

Bridget has represented Charlottesville and Central Virginia real estate since 1990, with a particular focus on pre-1940 homes and estates. She works with McLean Faulconer, Inc., a Charlottesville brokerage founded in 1980, and has served as Director of Education for the Charlottesville Area Association of REALTORS®.

Selling a historic home comes down to emotional connection. The architecture may draw the eye, but it is the feeling of the house that makes a buyer imagine a life there: the light, the patina, the gardens, the land, the sense of continuity.

A strong presentation does more than document those qualities. Through photography, film, and editorial narrative, it creates the moment when a buyer stops admiring the property and begins to imagine it as their own.