Battersea Historic District

The working class neighborhood of Prides Field and Battersea encompass one community. There is a locally defined historic district along West High to Battersea Mansion. The neighborhood was laid out in 1810 on the north bank of the Appomattox, but most of the surviving houses are simple middle and late 19th century, two-story, detached frame dwellings adorned with square columns or with Italianate brackets and turned posts on the porches. The houses are set close together on shallow lots giving the neighborhood an urban quality. Several early structures appear to be extant, including an outbuilding of Pride’s Tavern. The great suburban Palladian house, Battersea, c. 1768, stands on 35 acres at the western end of the neighborhood.