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Supplements: with ensuite baths. A ground floor basement allows for storage, a TV room and a laundry room. Spacious double verandas and large fenced in gardens offer a perfect setting for entertaining. Steps away, a fully independent guest house with two additional bedrooms, a bathroom, a full kitchen and large living room. The grounds are very private and surr ... (Read more) with ensuite baths. A ground floor basement allows for storage, a TV room and a laundry room. Spacious double verandas and large fenced in gardens offer a perfect setting for entertaining. Steps away, a fully independent guest house with two additional bedrooms, a bathroom, a full kitchen and large living room. The grounds are very private and surrounded by lush landscaping and a wall. One area of the yard offers a brick fire pit. Beautiful nighttime lighting and an irrigation system complete this offering. In 2009 the College of William & Mary's Summer Field School in Architectural History documented the house. The Sams House has sash sawn framing members. The first floor has secret-nailed pine floorboards. Wood trim throughout the first floor consist of double architraves with quirked Greek moldings. The center hall has a twisted, open-stringer stair with tapered newel and balusters and a round handrail. The fireplace mantels are in the Adam's style. Like many of the Beaufort houses, a two story piazza was added in the mid-nineteenth century. Civil War photographs show a blind parapet that sits atop the piazza. During the Civil War, the house was a contraband hospital.