Attic Insulation in Lewiston Woodville, NC

Lewiston Woodville Homes and Their Attics

Inside Chimneys in Woodville's Antebellum Houses

The Woodville Historic District's 1998 nomination counts six houses built before the Civil War. A two-story frame house of about 1860, under a hipped roof, has two brick chimneys inside its walls. An older house, dated to the 1810s by family tradition, has its chimneys on the outside end walls instead. Where a chimney rises inside the house, it passes through the attic floor, and the gap around it lets warm air slip upward. We close that gap with aluminum flashing and high-temperature caulk, then set a metal dam around it. Codes commonly require a 2 inch space between masonry and insulation.

Gambrel Roofs and Dormers of the Craftsman Years

Woodville's historic period closes in 1927, the year its last historic house was built. The nomination describes a story-and-a-half frame house of 1916 to 1917 under a steep gambrel roof, with a shed dormer across the front. It also describes a story-and-a-half brick bungalow of 1927 with a gabled dormer, and the county survey adds a Lewiston bungalow of about 1924 with a large dormer. Upstairs rooms in houses like these are tucked under the roof slope, with short knee walls at their sides. The wedge of attic behind each knee wall is a known leak point, so it is sealed and insulated along with the space overhead.