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Historic Preservation in Surry County, NC (2026)

1 rule for unincorporated Surry County, North Carolina.

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Note: These county rules apply to unincorporated areas of Surry County. If you live within an incorporated city, that city's own rules apply: see the city list below.

Historic-Cultural Monuments

Surry County's Board of Commissioners created a Historic Preservation Commission under G.S. §§ 160D-940-949, with the county Planning Board sitting as that commission, but its reach stops at the Village of Rockford National Register Historic District. Inside that district no exterior feature of a building, structure, sign or landscape can be erected, altered, moved or demolished without a certificate of appropriateness from the Planning Board.

Village of Rockford Historic Review, Surry County

Significant Restrictions

Surry County Code §§ 154.004-03, 154.006-22(H)

HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION (HPC). ... (A) Establishment. ... Pursuant to the authority conferred by G.S. §§ 160D-940—949 and 160D-951, there shall be and is hereby created a Historic Preservation Commission appointed by the Board County Commissioners. Pursuant to G.S. § 160D-303(b), the Surry County Planning Board is designated as the Surry County Historic Preservation Commission. ... T...

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