Charleston, SC – Drayton House

At the Drayton house they pride themselves on the preservation of the house and grounds, not the restoration. They don’t have any period furniture in there unless it was left with the house. They have left the house much as how it was found. It was actually really interesting to see it in such a raw state.
Here we are driving up the long drive to the house.
 
Here was our guide for the day, he was fantastic.

A view from the front of the house, looking towards the long entrance road.

Here’s Joe on the front porch.
 
Inside the house, this is the main entrance room.
   
Here is the view of the other side of the main entrance room from one of the side rooms. The fireplace is on the wall not pictured. There is a model of the Drayton house on the desk.

One of the four rooms off of the main entrance.
 
Another side room.
   
Another view of the main entry.

If you were to walk straight through from the front door through the middle door you would see the back door like below, and a double sided staircase.

 
Here’s a view out the back door.
 
The door to the basement, some jerks thought it was a good idea to write on it.'
 
Details of the staircase.
 
Once up the stairs we were in the “master bedroom”
 
Off the main room was a side room, the tile on the mantel would have been the tile surrounding the fireplace, they found it among some rubbish in the house.

A view from the porch to the front lawn.

A view from the porch back into the big room.

In the side room there were stairs up to the attic, and a strange window seat
    
Back down the stairs and outside. The view of the grass is towards the river from the back door. We went into the basement but I unfortunately only took one picture of the big fireplace. It was a little drab down there.
   
In the distance is the potty house, and below is a picture of what the set up would have been like.

On our way back to Charleston we stopped by the oldest church in South Carolina. It was closed, so I’m not sure what part is the oldest.
 
From here we decided to go out to Folly Beach to spend the remainder of the afternoon on the beach. You can check that out in the next post.