House
As you approach the house you might think it’s surrounded by trees. You would be correct except they’re far enough back to allow for plenty of natural light around the home.
Complete with Hardie siding and a metal roof, this house is built to last with significantly reduced maintenance. Hardie siding is a very durable colored fiber cement siding which is pest and weather resistant. Metal roofs are widely considered the best roofs to install due to their long life, heavy durability and smooth run-off. All roof drainage is subsurface and the immediate property is contoured to control run-off away from the structure.
There is data wiring to every room and entertainment wiring to each of the TV locations (ie living room, family room, and outdoor patio).
This house has a heat exchanger, exterior wood burning stove, and a full house generator. The heat exchanger reduces your overall heating/cooling requirements and the generator maintains the comforts of electricity during those rare outages. But, the icing on the cake is the wood burning stove. It, more than adequately, heats the entire home and the detached kitchen when diligently stocked.
Outdoors
The first thing you notice when turning off Edray road is the secluded look of the driveway. But, just a few 100 feet later it opens onto 15 acres of pasture bordered by another 15 acres of forest and streams. In this Shangri La it’s not unusual to see deer, foxes, fawns, and many types of birds. The serenity is most obvious with every season.
Detached Garage / Workshop
An incredible bonus to this property is a fully functional detached outbuilding, completely insulated and functional as either a garage or a workshop. Included is an open-air storage area adjacent to the exterior wood furnace. Perfect for all log cutting/splitting tools and seasonal storage for summer equipment (eg lawnmowers, attachments, etc)
One room not included in either the virtual or photos is an adjoined kitchenette / bathroom to this out building. It, like the house, has radiant heat. It is plumbed for a sink and has electrical for a microwave / oven, but is unfinished. It is accessed via one of the two rear doors to this outbuilding.
Recently completed are two outbuildings. Adjacent to the detached garage is now a fully functional detached office; complete with radiant heat, air conditioning, LED lighting, and is fully configured for flexible data and entertainment use. Additionally, a similarly sized building was built near the well to house all water treatment equipment. And, finally, a new well housing was built to replace the more delapidated structure.
For a “virtual view” of the detached garage, click here.
Plot
Enjoy this aerial short clip to give you an idea of the privacy.
Below is the plot map. Included in this sale are the parcels marked in red. A deed for right of way exists through one parcel (47-35) owned by another party. Parcel 47-19 is not delineated, but has 10% ownership. This was, originally, established for logging rights, but since the land is not easily navigable, it has been ignored. The left edge of 47-18 is at the far end of a ravine while the lower right edge of 47-16.2 is at the base of another ravine. From this aerial view you can see the two ravines merge in parcel 47-19. This pie shape is, largely, the reason this property is so private. The well is located on parcel 47-45. As such, the water travels a third of a mile to the house. A second pipe has been run from the house to the lower left corner of plot 47-45. The intent of this pipe, if necessary or desirable, is to complete its run to municipal water at the road. So far, the well has been plenty adequate.
Please note: this aerial from the county is out-of-date as both the house and the detached outbuilding are complete. Furthermore, the pasture has been expanded and is now lush and full.
Inventory
Below is a list of items included in the sale or which can be negotiated out. The items were carefully selected to ease your transition into this home without worrying about what is needed to maintain the property or what is needed to establish level of comfort. All major equipment is regularly serviced. Everything listed is fully operational.
- 32 acres of land spread over 5 parcels. Please note, there is another plot for which 10% is included in the sale. But, quite frankly, it’s completely inaccessible to anyone other than the owner of this property. In other words, I treat this as an extra 9 acres with beautiful trails and streams.
- All data equipment in electrical room
- All furniture shown in the images (san the following): Nook table/chairs, folding chairs
- All fixed entertainment (eg TVs)
- Kubota B3350 tractor and following accessories
- front and rear quick hitches – makes switching attachments easy
- 60″ brush hog – easy clearing dense brush, saplings, etc.
- 60″ rear blade – great for spreading dirt
- 60″ tiller – great for planting
- 60″ rake – great for leveling dirt
- 60″ land grader – makes driveway maintenance easy
- front forks – indispensable for a multitude of tasks
- John Deere XUV550 Gator UTV
- John Deere zero turn lawn mower and trail mower
- 48″ Aerator
- Wood working
- Movable work bench
- Movable equipment table
- Chop saw
- Table saw
- Chop / slide saw
- Chainsaw sharpener
- Hand router
- Table router
- Adjustable roller
- Rigid equipment
- Rotary saw
- Drill
- Power driver
- Saws-all
- Rotary sander
- Belt sander
- Table belt sander
- Bevy of hand tools and bits
- Heavy duty shelving
- Portable air conditioner
- 7 x Log holders
- 3 x dehumidifiers
- Extra refrigerator, oven, microwave, and dishwasher (planned for kitchen in detached out building).
Disclosure
In the interest of being 100% forthcoming, we’ve decided to disclose what we deem less than perfect in this house and let you decide if it’s critical to you. Below is that list. Please note, however, this is a process in motion meaning as projects get completed, they’ll be removed from this list.
- Detached garage gutter. The rear side of the detached garage has a gutter, but the front does not. For some reason the original owner did not see the need for it. While it’d be nice, we haven’t really missed it.
- Gutter screens: The rear of the house is, at least, two stories high and, as such, the gutters are difficult to clean (though the current water pressure washer with its long extension do the job). The objective is to get screens on that and the detached garage to mitigate leaf cleaning in the autumn.
- Detached kitchen/bathroom: The original owner plumbed for a kitchenette and toilet (eg toilet is fully functional), but did not complete the flooring or cabinetry. Plans include completing the exposed pex connections, installing an on demand hot water system, finishing the receptacle for the stove/microwave, installing flooring, and cabinetry, and installing the fixtures. Please note all appliances already exist.
- Replace some of the lower stone facing. Near the ground some of the stone facing was improperly sealed and thus, needs to be re-adhered.
- Game room. The wet bar in the recreation room was never completed (ie counters, sink, refrigerator, bar, etc) and is instead being used as another office area. The intent by the original owner was to install a wet bar, acquire a quality billiards table, and furnish it as a separate game room.
- Install existing heat exchanger in detached garage. It exists and is currently stored in the detached garage attic.
Operations
Luxury homes can be complex. To assuage any anxiety, the home has been fully documented. Attached are diagrams of the three most essential infrastructure items.
Negotiable
As this property is vast and the purpose yet fully defined (horses, sheep, cattle, agriculture) the sellers are flexible in selling parcels separately. If any parcels are detached from the whole, those parcels still have water rights from the front well. The well should suffice for 3 homes using properly sized pressure tanks.
Furthermore, per the inventory above, things can be negotiated in and out. The seller’s sole purpose for selling is to down-size. And, accordingly, are motivated to provide the equipment with the property.
The price of this property is not comparable to the local market because the property has no equitable comps. Furthermore, the uniqueness of the property, quality of structures, and proximity to necessities as a whole has no equal. And, finally, given the current construction climate, the cost of building an equitable home would be prohibitive. Not to mention the quality of the property.
We are targeting established motivated individuals who seek peace without sacrificing quality.
Improvements
- Water, mold, radon excellent
- A full radon mitigation system was put in
- Fireplace mantel added in living room
- New shelving in downstairs office and recreation room
- Utility room cabinets added
- Garage shelves added
- All equipment necessary to maintain the land purchased and is included
- Documentation created for everything requiring it
- Detached water filtration building near completion. The current well housing has a pressure tank squeezed in. A vacated root cellar was renovated to house a larger pressure tank along with more flexible filtering options without burdening the current space in both the well-house or the house itself. This, in no way, implies the water is bad. It was simply the most logical manner for expanding the water filtration and providing an area to more easily manage it.
- Detached office built and is plumbed for radiant heat and a minisplit. Currently, it is conditioned with an oil heater and a window air conditioner.
- New well housing built replacing the old dilapidated housing.
- Completed wood storage shed slab.
- Significant grooming of the property. We ‘trimmed up’ all trees adjacent to the home for the purpose of air flow, natural light, and fire prevention. We transformed 1 acre of grassland into a fire-pit area with unobstructed views of the property. We’ve trimmed up areas areas not adjacent to the home to create hiking paths.