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The centerpiece of this property is a charming country school house conversion done in a traditional gable style. It was completely renovated in 1978 and included the construction of a new, fully developed basement with pool room, bedroom, laundry room, cold room and a furnace room complete with a high-tech, high-effeciency oil furnace.
The focus of the ground level layout is an inviting main room with hand-hewn beams and a fireplace with airtight, glass-fronted woodstove. A dining room, galley-style kitchen and half-bath, decorated in black and white tile, installed in 2006, plus two bedrooms upstairs adds up to 1560 square feet of living space.
Fifty feet across the yard is a storey-and-a-half carriage house constructed to match the main house in 1988. It was purpose-built as a weaving studio (upstairs), with a workshop on the ground floor. The studio includes a utility bathroom with shower, a kitchenette and a small bedroom as well as a loft and storage area. The building lends itself to reconfiguration and could easily be converted to a cottage, a mother-in-law flat or a second domicile.
The four acres of land have a 175 foot western border on the beautiful Baddeck River which includes the best swimming hole/fishing pool in the valley.
The landscaping on this property and in particular its flower gardens are a local landmark, well known and admired by area residents. The flower gardens have been designed so as to require a minimum of maintenance while offering a maximum of natural appeal. The vegetable gardens are 100% organic.
The landscaped portion of the acreage (approximately 2 acres) is defined by dry-stone walls and, close to the dooryard, incorporates a flagged, crescent-shaped, sunken patio with a stone fire pit. Below the fire-pit, the path leads to a small pond fed by the overflow from a spring-fed well which keeps the property supplied with water. Beyond the little pond is a meadow backed by the rolling foothills that delineate the Baddeck River Valley.
Although this delightful property is completely private and secluded, it is less than 10 minutes from Baddeck, a resort town located on the Bras d'Or Lakes at the beginning of the Cabot Trail. Baddeck is probably best known for being the summer retreat of Alexander Graham Bell. |
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Landscaping, Vegetable Gardens and Fruit Trees
TREES: white pine, red pine, jack pine suger maple, birch, larch, sumac, hazelnut, ornamental crabapple, eddible apple and crabapple
SHRUBS: juniper, lilac, privet, enonymous, old yellow rose, various types of roses, orange quince, potentilla, bramble hedge, wiegelia bush, boxwood, forsythia, mock orange, honeysuckle, bridal wreath spirea, flame bush, cottoneaster, blackberry patch
GROUND COVERS: ferns, blue ajuga, blue vinca, sweet woodruf (white), goat weed (green and white), creeping Jenny (yellow)
PERENNIALS: geraniums, various hostas, peony, astillbe, false sunflower, daffodills, rock cress, solomon's seal, iris, japanese iris (blue and yellow), oriental lilly(pinks), tiger lilly (yellow, orange), mugwart, artemesia, butterfly bush, william and mary (blue, pink), forget-me-not, lilly of the valley, pansy (lavendar), basil (green and variegated), sage, thyme, flocks, comfry, purple coxe flower, foxglove, musk mellon
POND: watercress |
