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The Heflin brothers were the plasterers.
In exterior style the home is a combination of a Virginia central hall design and a shingled New England and Cape Cod home. Wings were added on both sides of the home soon after it was built.
Very little of its stately design is visible from the road, just a glimpse of flowered walkway through the stone pillars. Mature trees, stone walls and cottage gardens along the fence lines punctuate the gardens. Roses and grapes still grow in their original locations on a trellis outside the kitchen door.
The house today is decorated much as it was when it was built, with family furniture, books, silver, chests and pictures illustrating the lives of the three generations who have called it home. Horses— training them, riding them, racing them, enjoying them— were in the Laing blood and have remained there to this day.
It is the spirit of the home, with trophies, silver plates, books, pictures and prints attesting to 70 years of involvement with them. Prominent among the mementos is a lithograph of Noel Laing, an uncle of the owner, and Troublemaker in the paddock after winning the Maryland Hunt Cup in 1932, and a portrait of Troublemaker, who also ran in the Grand National.
The living room has a large fireplace and a portrait of the original Aileen over the sofa. Behind another sofa is a long table filled with pictures of the owners’ many relatives— “My household gods,” she calls them.
Off the living room is a small library. Built-in shelves are filled with collections of the original Laings: Dickens, Kipling, Shakespeare as well as scrapbooks and many other books gathered together from the many family members who enjoyed them. A
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