Facade	Right Elevation	Left Rear Oblique	Left Rear Oblique	Interior Main Entrance
Interior Central Hall Facing Rear of House	Interior Free Standing Column in Hall	Interior Newel Post	Interior Staircase	Interior Second Floor Landing

Dove Dale is significant for its association with the establishment, growth, and development of the Dovesville community from the beginning of the nineteenth century through the first quarter of the twentieth century, and for its long association with six generations of the Dove family, for whom Dovesville is named. It is also an excellent and relatively intact example of an early nineteenth century plantation farmhouse with later nineteenth and early twentieth century alterations. It retains a significant percentage of its historic floor plan and other historic materials, architectural elements and other character-defining features. This one-and-one-half-story frame double-pile, spraddle-roofed house, built according to family and local tradition as early as ca. 1805, exhibits architecture typical of moderate plantation farmhouses built in the tidewater and coastal plain of the Carolinas in the early nineteenth century. The house features a front porch with six slightly tapered, solid wood piers, four brick chimneys, twenty-eight windows, and three exterior doors. The long shed-roofed dormer on the front roof slope and the porch piers are thought to date from some time before 1898. The double-leaf, two-paneled front door has sidelights and a transom, as does its matching double-leaf rear door at the opposite end of the long central hall. The rear door once accessed an inset or in antis porch. None of the original outbuildings survive. A small fish pond is an early landscape feature of the front lawn. The agricultural fields that provide setting for the house, yard and grove extend to the north, east and south. These fields have continued under cultivation for two hundred years. Listed in the National Register February 22, 2007.

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