The plantation includes a large post-civil war farmhouse, a number of original slave cabins (which were occupied by sharecroppers well into the 20th century), several flowering gardens, and the historic "Avenue of Oaks": a mile drive up the house with live oaks on either side. It sits on Horlbeck Creek in the Christ Church parish about 10 miles from historic downtown Charleston.

The earliest known existence of the ground is 1681. It originated from a land grant given to Major John Boone. The land grant of 460 acres was given by Theophilus Patey as a wedding present to his daughter, Elizabeth and Boone. The original wooden house was constructed in 1790. The house that stands now was built by Thomas Stone, a Canadian who purchased the land in the early 20th century. He wanted a "grander style" home than what was there, so he built the Georgian mansion-style house that stands there today. However, the bricks in the house were taken from the Horlbeck brickyard.

On the grounds today, besides the house, sit nine of the original slave cabins, a smoke house dating back to 1790, the Cotton Gin house (1853) and the grand Avenue of Oaks that was created in 1843 and runs 3/4 of a mile long from the entrance to the front house gates.