Get out your tricorn hats: A home that predates the Revolutionary War is now on the market. Featuring many of its original details, the vintage home is available for the very modern-day price of $4.9 million.

The home on Church Street near the Battery in Charleston, SC, was built in 1775.

“It’s just breathtaking. You feel like you’re walking through time and through history. It makes you think of all that has gone on in this home since 1775,” says listing agent Angel Wilson, with Daniel Ravenel Sotheby’s International Realty.

“You wonder what meetings were there during the Revolutionary War time and the conversations that could have possibly taken place in these very rooms,” says Wilson.

Historic and modern

Known as the Thomas Ball House, it was named for an early owner who was once the Colonial governor of South Carolina.

“It’s a great home that combines historic and modern features,” Wilson says. “The current owners took a back kitchen house and stripped it to the old brick, reinforced it with steel, repurposed the 1775 beams, and took the leftover beams and had the wood milled to make the floors.”

The finished space has huge windows, a 20-foot ceiling, and two fireplaces (one that was once used for cooking, the other for laundry).

“It’s a great blend, because it’s right off the nicely renovated and modern kitchen. The rest of the house is very historic with original moldings and mantelpieces,” Wilson says.

Amazingly, the home has its original steel gambrel roof.

Third-floor addition

The home’s third floor was added in the 1800s, and the four bedrooms have something most historic homes don’t.

“This house has ample closet space, which is a rarity in old homes of this period,” Wilson explains. The British would tax closets as extra rooms, so people would use wardrobes instead.

“It also has a huge laundry room, which is pretty non-existent in Charleston historic homes,” she says. “You usually have to confiscate a very cherished closet to put a stackable unit in. But this has a full laundry room on the third floor.”

There’s more to the third floor: According to local lore, “Gone With the Wind” author Margaret Mitchell was a visitor.

“She might have stayed on the third floor for a long period of time and possibly wrote some of the book there, but we don’t know that for a fact,” Wilson says. “It’s just kind of a legendary story about the house and is kind of a fun twist.”

The home has two 57-foot piazzas overlooking the gardens and reflecting pool, as well as a rooftop deck.

“It overlooks the endless Charleston roofs, which is just exquisite, and even the Calhoun Mansion (now known as the Williams Mansion), where the movie ‘North and South’ was filmed many years ago in Charleston,” Wilson says.

Original elements

The structure of the house has not changed, except for the renovation of the kitchen house into a living space, she adds. Most of the handrails, floors, and mantels are original.

“Someone who is very acquainted with restoration would appreciate this type of home,” Wilson adds. “This is not the type of home that you just gut and put modern everything in. It has been so well-preserved.”

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