This storybook 19th century home has been featured on the front cover of 2 major decorating magazines & has been meticulously restored.
After you drive down the long romantic paved driveway you can see that the board & baton finish on the extension blends nicely with the impeccable stonework on original home. The extension was professionally constructed and once you are inside, unless you knew in advance that this was a newer extension, you would have never known it was!
From the distant main road, the front entrance door appears to be the original door from the 1800s. Once you parked in the large paved parking area at the end of the large paved driveway and walk up the front steps you can see from up closed that the door is a modern next-to-new steel entrance door system manufactured to match the original door. Even the curved transom above the door is new! Beautiful!
As you open the front door, the spacious foyer opens up to both the living room and the extra wide staircase to the second level. The spacious living room has majestic 9 foot + ceilings with original hewing beams from a time gone by. The original pine plank floors are encapsulated in paint to preserve their heritage. Both the traditional mouldings and lathe and plaster are in great condition. The old stone chimney has had a steel liner installed the same time the wood pellet/corn stove was installed. This fireplace as well as both other ones are easily WETT certified to keep your insurance company doing the happy dance.
To the right or east of the front door are two classic French doors that lead into the spacious dining room. Like the living room, the dining room's recessed windows have beautiful trim from yesteryear. The woodstove adds much ambience to the room on a cool fall evening or for Thanksgiving dinner. You and your guests will be able to see the tall ships from the dinner table as you look south towards the St. Lawrence River.
To the north of the dining room is a good sized guest kitchen that was predominately used by the guests when the home was operated as a bed and breakfast. There is a steel door that leads to the large east patio and another interior door that leads to a small hall with direct access to the original storage basement and the main grand room of the extension. Enjoy your morning coffee on the east patio as you watch the sunrise over the north east coast of New York State.
The above reference grand room is also accessed from the majestic living room with the hewing beams. The Grand Room is comprised of a large eat-in kitchen and family room with built-in flat screen television and custom pot lights in the ten foot high ceilings. The east wall is home to the third wood burning fireplace. As you can see, you find ambience at every corner of the main level! You will appreciate the crown moulding that decorates the entire room and the pine flooring that was installed less than two decades ago, yet closely matches the pine flooring in the original home. The kitchen has a large farmer's sink with counter space above the kitchen cabinetry. Just opposite the kitchen table is a huge pantry with shelf space for enough dry goods to feed a family for at least a quarter century! Behind the kitchen table are two French steel entrance doors leading to a huge screened in porch to watch the sun set over the small field and the forest just to the east. The small yard space just off the screened veranda is conveniently fenced for small animals and toddlers.
At the south end of the kitchen is the huge master suite with a walk-in closet. There is a lovely four piece ensuite bath with ceramic tile flooring and of course, the pièce de résistance, the Finish sauna! This big, bright master bedroom room also has high ceilings and lovely French style wooden blinds on the four windows.
The second level has a huge second bedroom with some of the widest pine plank floors you will find in a historic home. This room has a huge closet and an ensuite bath with an original claw foot tub. The other second level 4-piece bathroom is shared by the third and fourth bedrooms. These west facing bedrooms also have pine plank flooring and are almost identical in size. Both have mid-sized walk-in closets with lights-a nice modern touch!
Updates include:
-Wiring
-Plumbing
-Well casing-2009
-Furnace-2004
-Oil tank-2008
-Central Air-2000
-Windows
-Doors
-Kitchen
-All 3 Bathrooms
-All 3 Fireplaces
-Shingles (the front shingles facing the road re-shingled in the fall of 2010)
The existing septic system is an 800 gallon 2 chamber tank with a weeping bed. It is older, however has always worked well for the current owner. An older dug well on the property can be filled in at the buyer's expense or left in it's concrete bunker for future use by the new owner or another owner decades from now.
Interior Inclusions: All attached light fixtures and ceiling fans, all window coverings, stainless steel appliances in the kitchen i.e. microwave, Admiral built-in dishwasher, Whirlpool stove and Woods refrigerator , Amana washer & dryer (white), chest freezer in pantry, built-in television in grand room with remote-possibly some furniture for the right offer.
Exterior Inclusions: Dock, stairs to dock, television/internet tower, 8 x 12 storage building with metal roof behind garage, decorative bridge at rear of property.
Exclusions: Stand up freezer in guest kitchen/computer room, all paintings and personal effects.
Rental Equipment: None
Hi speed internet: Available through Bell, xplornet and ripnet. We always suggest that you have a site analysis completed by your internet provider to confirm that all is good.
The large 24 foot x 28 foot outbuilding at the end of the paved driveway could be easily be converted to a double garage for approx. $3,000-$4,000. Please contact Randy for further details. Subject to verification it would be easy to add 2 eight foot wide garage doors that could be as high as ten feet since the minimum ceiling height is approx. 11 feet! Even two nine foot wide garage doors would work or an 18 or 20 foot wide double garage door is a possibility.
The outbuilding is constructed with 2 x 6 inch framing with R-20 insulation in both the walls and ceilings. There is a separate breaker panel that is connected to the main panel of the home. The electricity is fed through an underground plastic conduit. There is also running water in the building* as well as a 6 gallon hot water tank. So if you are not baking, you could wash your car with warm water!
It is our understanding that if you desired to utilize this home as single family only, to slightly reduce your property taxes, you could request to have the commercial aspect of the zoning removed.
As discussed in the introduction, a package price can be worked out if ever there was some interest in purchasing the home as well as the riverfront lot immediately to the west that is also for sale. Please see the property dimensions listed below.
HOUSE INFORMATION SUMMARY:
MLS List Price: $388,000
Property Assessment 2011: $270,250
Property Taxes 2010: $3865
Roll Number: 050600600385800
Legal Description: Con 1 Range 1 Pt Lot 35 PR 8R 3688 Pt 2
Overall Lot size: 270.57 x 755.46 or 4.95 acres irregular
Zoning: Rural Residential/Commercial (to be verified with Township)
LOT INFORMATION SUMMARY:
MLS List Price: $150,000
Property Assessment 2011: $39,625
Property Taxes 2010: $511.52
Roll Number: 050600600385840
Legal Description: Con 1 Range 1 Pt Lot 35-36 PR 8R 607 Except Pt 2 & 3, 8r3688
Overall Lot size: 185.03 X 813.62 or x 3.46 acres irregular
Zoning: Rural Residential (to be verified with Township)
ROOM SIZES:
Original Home-Main level-Mainly Nine Foot Ceilings (approx.)
Foyer: 7' x 7'
Living room: 18’4" x 26’2"
Dining room: 14' x 17'.4
Guest kitchen/Computer room: 14' x 8'6"
Extension-Main level-Mainly Nine Foot Ceilings (approx.)
Grand Room, combo Kitchen & family rm: 18' x 22'
Eating area off kitchen: 9' x 7'
Walk-in Pantry: 6'8" x 7'6"
Master bedroom: 16' x 14'
Ensuite-4pc-1pc tub & shower: 8'4" x 6'5"
Walk-in-closet: 8'4" x 3'4"
Sauna: 8'4" x 2'8"
Laundry: 7’10" x 6’8”
Original Home-2nd level-Mainly Eight Foot Ceilings (approx.)
Bedroom #2: 13'1" x 21’6”
Bedroom #3: 13'5” x 13’
Bedroom #4: 13’5” x 12’
3pc Bathroom with claw foot tub: 5'1" x 8'
3pc Bathroom with shower: 7'1" x 8’10”
Extension-Basement-Mainly 7.5 foot Ceilings (approx.)
Workshop: 11' x 17'8"
Weight Room (L shape-wraps around workshop): 24'5' x 35'
Basement of the original home, like the basement of the extension, has a concrete floor approx. 5 feet high & is for storage only.
The home could easily be used strictly as a family home. If necessary, the extension can be used as an attached in-law suite or even an attached apartment. The centrally air-conditioned home has seen many uses in days gone by including most recently a bed and breakfast. The layout is excellent for operating a B&B or small restaurant.
There is a small commercial component to the existing zoning that allowed for the specialty bakery that operated out of the large garage/outbuilding at the end of the paved driveway. The amount of commercial property taxes presently paid is negligible, hardly making it worth re-zoning to save money if you were to use the property for strictly residential purposes. In fact this small portion of commercial zoning may be important for future re-sale of the property a few years or decades from now. We hope you will stay in the area and enjoy your new home for decades!
If you were to re-open the bed & breakfast the owner would be happy to help get you started. If you always had an interest in baking, the owner would be happy to mentor you on the fine art of baking in his wood burning oven in the outbuilding. If the bakery would be best used as an oversized double garage, we can show you how to easily dismantle the wood burning fireplace so that you could maximize your storage space in the garage. There is no reason why you could not use the building as a combined garage and bakery since the oven is presently located at the rear or north end of the building.
If ever you wanted to escape to a huge home with no commercial applications whatsoever this could be the right home for you! It is fantastically renovated and is located on a huge lot with a tremendous river view and full river access. This property is definitely worth a look!
As mentioned in the introduction, please see the virtual tour: www.aFantasticallyRenovatedHome
Welcome to your new home!
LOCAL SERVICES IN THE TOWN OF CARDINAL:
730 Truck Stop, Shanly Road Cardinal, ON K0E 1E0 Phone Number: (613) 657-3155
Canada Post 760 Dundas Street East Cardinal 613-657-3494
Cardinal Flowers & Gift Gallery 2085 Shanly Road Cardinal 613-657-1707
Cardinal Lions Club 331 Walter Street Cardinal, Phone Number: (613) 657-4688
Cardinal Laundromat & Car Wash, Highway #2 (613) 657-8886
Creative Memories-1216 Pittston Road (613) 658-2496
Euro-Deli, Highway #2 - Village Square Mall (613) 657-4546
Fields Unit #1, 623 Highway Two, Cardinal (613) 657-1721
Footloose and Fancyfree Reflexology Clinic-2069 Dundas St (613) 802-0996
General Dollar and Party Sense 744 Dundas Street East Cardinal 613-657-1764
Gorrell Grenkie Leroy & Remillard Solicitors-2088 Dundas (613) 657-3184
Grenville Community Futures Development Corp. 197 Water St (613) 925-4275
Grenville Towing Services 14 Marjorie Street Cardinal 613-657-1682
GT Automotive 3018 John Street Cardinal 613-657-3116
Hair-itage Design & Barbering, Village Square Mall (613) 657-3999
His and Hers Hair Styling 657-1189
Irving H. Miller Ltd. Real Estate & Insurance-214 Bridge St. Cardinal (613) 657-3205
It's All About Numbers Bookkeeping Plus! 1017 Jordan Rd (613) 340-8409
Kellie's Cuts & Curls-240A Lewis Street,Cardinal, (613) 657-3016
Kayla's Kloset, Seamstress-134 Henry St. Cardinal, (613) 657-3190
KOA Campground-609 Pittston Road RESERVATIONS: 1-800-562-3643
LCBO 623 County Road 2 Cardinal 613-657-3305
Madmacs Furniture and Appliances 2069 Dundas Street Cardinal 613-657-3037
Mac's Milk Company-County Road 2 (613) 657-3379
Marsden & McLaughlin Funeral Home-2065 Dundas Street (613) 657-4848
Norm's Wood Flooring (613) 657-3636
Pet Central-2073 Dundas St. Cardinal 613-657-1190
Porter Consulting-12 Flett Street, Cardinal, (613) 657-3077
Rick's Automotive (613) 657-3324
Riverside Seniors-408 Lambert Street,Cardinal (613) 657-3506
Rona Hardware 623 Cardinal Village Mall (County Road 2) Cardinal 613-657-4580
Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 105 2194 Dundas Street Cardinal 613-657-4735
Schrader Auto Care 205 Bridge Street Cardinal 613-657-4761
Sacred Heart Parish Centre-549 Middle Street (613) 657-3733
Sara Jane Photography-Phone Number: (613) 657-3039
St. Andrews Presbyterian Church-2140 Dundas St (613) 657-3291
St. John's United Church-2120 Dundas Street (613) 657-4702
St. Lawrence Medical Clinic-214 Bridge Street (613) 657-3197
St. Paul's Anglican Parish Hall-3038 John Street (613) 657-3400
Studio C Dance- (613) 657-1392
Travel Counsellors-5186 Meadowland Drive, Cardinal (613) 803-0550
LOCAL SERVICES IN THE TOWN OF IROQUOIS:
Beaupre Jewellers Shopping Centre 613-652-4340
Doug Byers Furniture and Appliances Highway 2 613-652-4577
DT Mobile Wash 10723 Kirker 613-652-1690
Dentz Orchards and Berry Farm 4766 County Road 16 Brinston 613-652-2397
LCBO Iroquois Shopping Centre 613-652-4549
ThompsonTim-BrMartBuilding Centre 613-652-4478
Iroquois Pizza Shopping Centre 613-652-1000
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