Brooke's Bank


Brooke's Bank is a historic plantation house located near Loretto, Essex County, Virginia. It was built in 1751, and is a two-story, five bay, brick dwelling with a hipped roof in the Georgian style. It has two 20th century one-story brick wings. The original interior woodwork of Brooke's Bank survives almost completely intact. During the American Civil War. it was shelled by the USS Parmee, a Union gunboat on the Rappahannock River.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.