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1049 HIGHWAY 2 E
$935,000 Sale
Listed 7 hours ago
· 4
· 2.0
· 4
· 2000 - 2500
Key Facts
Key facts for 1049 HIGHWAY 2 E
Property Type
House, House
Parking
Garage: No, 4 parking
MLS #
X12393348
Size
2000 - 2500 sqft
Basement
Finished, N/A (Finished)
Listed on
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Lot size
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Tax
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Days on Market
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Year Built
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Maintenance Fee
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Description
The once-formal gardens that surround this intensely pretty (and nicely updated) limestone and sandstone home just east of downtown Kingston have let their guard down just slightly. A chicken coop in one corner. Geometries hinted at rather than imposed. The barn leans so casually against the house i...t might be about to tell a good joke. The familiar touchstones are all here; mile-wide window ledges, softwood floors worn the colour of toffee or honeycomb, the wide porch like a dinner theatre stage. But there is more to 1049 than fearsome symmetry. A fireplace divides the living and dining rooms like a warm-hearted referee. Across the hall is a more private parlour, or home office. The wallpapers are modern, high-end, but nod knowingly to the history, as if William Morris popped by to tip his cap. There are four bedrooms, with ceilings high enough to accommodate the grandest of four-poster beds, the most elaborate of libraries. And the bathroom on this level, dead-centre at the front of the house, is a period piece, with its clawfoot tub crouched beneath the window like a big white cat. The basement, home once, to Downton Abbey-level shenanigans, and steaming stock pots swinging above the fire, is a cool retreat from the upper-floor hubbub, and also where the laundry is managed. It is a rambling, stylish country home. The shooting parties are long past. The life on offer is more literary than that, more urban farmer, more university prof, more doctor. I imagine kids tearing between bedrooms, up and down the stairs; their laughter sticking to the walls. (id:10452)
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Bathroom
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49.91 sqft
Bedroom
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173.47 sqft
Listing courtesy of: ROYAL LEPAGE PROALLIANCE REALTY, BROKERAGE
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