Henry Sherburne's house at 62 Deer Street in Portsmouth wears a scrolled pediment above its door. Built about 1766, this well-preserved example of late Georgian architecture is distinctive for its scrolled pediment entrance — the only in situ period example of its style — and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. It sits on the west side of The Hill, a cluster of historic houses southwest of the junction of Deer and High Streets; many of these houses, the Sherburne House among them, were relocated here as part of a road widening project.
The two-story wood-frame structure, with a hip roof and clapboarded exterior, faces west toward Deer Street near its junction with Russell Street. The front-facing roof is pierced by three gabled dormers whose scrolled pediments echo the carving above the main door. The five-bay facade centers on that entrance, flanked by pilasters and topped by an entablature and an elaborate broken scrolled pediment, while the roof line is finished with a heavy modillioned cornice.
Notice those carved pediments and the rhythm of windows, with the dormers framing the door below them.