733 Gimghoul Road

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W. E. ATKINS HOUSE
1924, 1940s
One-and-a-half-story, frame Craftsman cottage, with a front cross-gable, latticework entrance porch with an engaged bracketed hood, transom and sidelights around the front door, plain siding, and triple four-over-six and six-over-six sash windows in the main façade, six-over-six and six-over-nine sash on the sides and rear. The original west side porch was enclosed with siding and large plate-glass windows in the late 1940s. Built for W. E. Atkins, who worked with the architectural firm of Atwood and Nash, by contractor Barber (Barbour) from Chatham County. This is said to be the first house built on Gimghoul Road. Atkins sold the house a short time later to Earl Peacock, a professor of economics at UNC.

The house remains largely unaltered from the 1993 survey with the exception of the installation of a replacement window in the front gable; original paired six-light casement windows in this location have been replaced with a twelve-light fixed window. The six-panel door has five-light sidelights and a three-part transom and is sheltered by an engaged shed-roofed porch supported by lattice-work posts and sawn brackets. A gabled wing on the left (west) elevation, flush with the façade, was originally a porch, but was enclosed in the 1940s and features a picture window flanked by six-over-six windows. There is a near-full-width shed-roofed dormer on the rear (north) elevation and an inset porch at the northeast corner. An entrance on the right (east) elevation is sheltered by a small gabled roof on brackets. A low stone wall extends across the front and west sides of the property. County tax records date the building to 1942, though it appears on the 1925 Sanborn map.

In the 2013 survey, this was deemed a Contributing Building.

GARAGE
1940s
A hip-roofed garage at the rear of the property, accessed from Ridge Lane, is shared with the house at 106 Ridge Lane. The garage is three bays wide with plain weatherboards, two overhead garage doors and a single pedestrian entrance on the west elevation. IIn the 2013 survey, this was deemed a Contributing Building.

SOURCE: M. Ruth Little, National Register of Historic Places Nomination: Gimghoul Neighborhood Historic District, Orange County, OR0709 (Raleigh, NC: North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office, 2013, via HPOWEB, accessed 8 Jan. 2020), courtesy of the North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office; Heather Wagner Slane, 2013 Survey Update (NCSHPO HPOWEB 2.0, accessed 10 Jan. 2020); courtesy of the North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office.