1603 Fayetteville Street – Matthew D. William House

04.08.12

This one-story, clipped-side-gabled house is three bays wide and double-pile with a projecting gabled bay on the right end of the façade. The projecting front-gabled porch on the left end of the façade is supported by tapered wood posts on brick piers with a brick balustrade between the piers and an original four-over-four, double-hung wood window in the gable. The house has a continuous brick foundation and veneer with exposed timbering and stucco in the gables. It has a two-story gabled rear ell on the southeast corner and a shed-roofed block with bay window north of the ell. There is an interior brick chimney in the ridgeline and an exterior brick chimney in the north gable end. It has vinyl windows throughout, but retains an original twelve-light-over-one-panel front door with four-light-over-one-panel sidelights. Other details include purlins in the gables and a terra cotta terrace with brick balustrade to the south of the front porch. A modern brick retaining wall with metal fence extends across the front of the property. County tax records date the building to 1935; the earliest known occupant is Matthew D. Williams (clerk, Durham Fish & Produce Company) in 1940.