[Description of "Cofield Home", built 1760, Isle of Wight, VA]
[Research by Florence Jordan, 31 May 1937, WPA, VCC]

1. Subject: Cofield Home
2. Location: 3.82 miles southeast of Isle of Wight Court House, on
Route #637, thence 0.7 mile south on Route #600, thence 0.6 mile east
on Route #605, thence 100 yards south of Route #605.
3. Date: 1760 (date on chimney)  [front part is older]
4. Owners:
	Murphy
	Henry Murphy	1866.
	Mrs. Henry Murphy (widow) 1896.
	Mary Murphy Cofield	1919.
	H.P. Cofield		1937.
5. Description:
This is a small frame house, of a story and a half, located in a grove
of elm trees.  It has nine windows with different numbers of panes.  
It is three steps from the ground and the front porch is six by twenty-
one feet, a smaller front porch, having been done away with.  The doors
are two panels and hand-made of cypress wood.  There are two brick
chimneys, one at the back, one on the end.

The interior looks old.  There are six original rooms, and two rooms
that were built on in 1907.  The walls are plastered and have a wood
chair rail.  The flooring is made of heart pine and the mantels of
cypress.  The timbers were hand hewn and the weatherboarding sawn by
whipsaw.

6. Historical Significance:
The old Murphy burying ground is here, near the house under a large,
weeping willow tree but has no markers.

7. Art: photograph

8. Sources of Information:
Informant: Mrs. H.P. Cofield, Windsor, Virginia, Route #2.

Court Records, Clerk's Office, Isle of Wight County, Virginia

Architechural Description of Building [abstract]
Cofield Home.

Exterior:
"L" shaped with Cellar
1 1/2 stories, frame, Gambrel roof of shingles, 2 brick chimneys-one
on back, one on side
Weatherboarding: cypress sawn by whipsaw put together with wooden pegs.
Nails blacksmith nails.
Plain wood cornices
9 windows, panes: 4 panes 8" x 10", 15 panes 8" x 10"
No shutters, no dormers
Originally square front porch, now 6 by 21 feet [in 1937]
Entrance: Panels taken out and glass put in at top.  2 panels at bottom
Square columns

Interior: 
8 rooms, 4 small, 4 large; Approx. ceiling height 9' 7 1/2 inches 
Stairway: open string circular upstair
Cellar: two rooms. Store rooms. Front bricked up.
Doors: Hand-made five panel doors.  Made of heart cypress.  Some plank.
Walls plastered with wood chair board
No interior cornices
Iron "H L" hinges, one strap hinge, iron outside locks.
Wide heart pine flooring, varying widths.
Mantels: High, hand-made of cypress.
Misc: Back part put on 1760.  Front part is older.
Present condition [1937] Fair, not spoiled architechurally by 
remodeling.
Occupant seems to appreciate old architechural features.

		Florence Jordan.