Welch_Spring
Welch-Averiett House
United States historic place
The Welch-Averiett House, in Talladega County, Alabama near Sylacauga, Alabama, dates from 1830. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.[1] The listing included four contributing buildings on 44 acres (18 ha), on a land parcel of about 1,000 acres (4.0 km2).[2]
The house was built around 1920. It is a "a rambling twelve room clapboard bungalow little changed since c.1920. It has a hipped roof with broad eaves and a shed dormer decorated with angular brackets. The exterior is clapboard irregularly fenestrated with 6/6 wooden sash windows. There are four exterior brick chimneys. Two board and batten 'cabins' adjoin the rear with gabled and shed additions to the west end."[2]
It is also known as the L.L. Dean House and was known in the 1800s as Welch Spring.[2]
Other parts of the estate are older. The listing includes a rammed earth smokehouse.[2]
The original settler, Daniel Welch was living on this property by 1831.[2] The Averiett estate as a whole once had more than 10,000 acres (16 sq mi).
This was listed along with three other properties as part of a study of the estate.[3]
It is located about 8 miles (13 km) southwest of Sylacauga on the north side of Alabama State Route 8, in the Fayetteville, Alabama community.[2]
