Orange County
Timber Frame Home On Timber Tract Near Patoka Lake
3494 S Co Rd 250, Lot#WP001 Paoli, IN 47454
Description
Wilderness Immersion. 61 total acres. 59 acres mature forest land with two cleared acres accommodating house, finished multi-purpose building; two-car garage; 80/80-foot, deer-fenced potential garden area, and 1/8 acre stocked pond. Acreage is last house on lane and abuts thousands of acres of the Hoosier National Forest. Located ten minutes from Paoli, Indiana, and natural food coop grocery store. 1 hour from Louisville; 1 hour from Bloomington; 2 hours from Indianapolis, lovely “neighborhood” hilly countryside, perfect for walking. Abundant and diverse flora and fauna, including game and edible fungi. This beautiful home is a 26-year-old, 2000 sq. ft., 2-story, modern sip paneled, cement-boarded, oak timber frame, two-bedroom, 22-foot ceiling over 12/24 foot living room, 12X12 foot dining room, 12X12 cook's kitchen, 12X12 foot office, two full bathrooms, (master bath has two sinks, shower and large tub with jets) screened-in porch overlooking pond. Woodburning stove. Propane gas furnace and central air. Air-to-air heat exchanger. 5-year-old roof. 4-year-old Anderson 400 windows. 8-year-old cement board skin. Cherry and tile flooring. Cherry wood blinds throughout the house. Guest bedroom and walk-in closet carpeted. Walls are tongue and groove yellow pine stained translucent white. Extensive custom cabinets throughout. Solid wood doors. Baldwin door handles. Four-foot crawl space. Well water. Septic. .4 mile off county road. Multipurpose building, 11 years old. 36X24 feet. Two-story. 2/6 for storage, 1/6 office and bath, 3/6 open upper party, rec room, etc. Don’t hesitate to call and schedule your private showing. Shown by appointment only with advanced notice!
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- The Home features: 8-year old concrete board siding, 5-year old roof, wood burning stove (installed in 2019), well water, solid wood doors, and cherry and tile flooring throughout
- The Dining room features: tile flooring, floor to ceiling windows with cherry blinds, built-in drawers for storing of table linens, built-in cabinets for storage, artist painted “Let us all now partake of it with a great happy smacking of lips” on one of the beams
- Living Room features: Cherry flooring (refinished in January 2020), floor to ceiling windows around the perimeter as well as smaller windows above w/cherry blinds and a stunning wood stove (installed new 2019) (propane gas/air conditioning as well)
- Kitchen features: Cherry floors refinished in January 2020, new gas stovetop installed in January 2020, new electric wall oven installed in January 2020, custom-built cabinets, including beautiful custom-made range hood, pull-out cutting boards, convenient large pull-out drawers for pots/pans, etc., two pop-up shelves for mixer and other small appliances, gadget drawer, dishwasher (Bosch), Bose butcher block, perfectly suited for chopping, etc. Tile countertop/backsplash near oven for placing hot baking dishes. Corian countertops throughout rest of kitchen plus double Corian sink, very easy clean. Microwave (free standing, but in a cabinet above the wall oven for its storage). Built-in kitchen desk, cabinet, and bookshelves for meal planning
- Laundry/Pantry features: LGE stack front-loading washer/dryer, high countertop for easy folding laundry, pull-out ironing board and a utility sink with sprayer
- Guest Bathroom features: Water-saving easy flush toilet, sink with built in tile framed mirror, 2 windows, tile flooring
- Guest Bedroom features: Berber carpeting and 3 floor to ceiling windows
- Master Bedroom features: Cherry flooring, custom built-in bookshelves. beautiful large window overlooking pond/woods plus two other windows, narrow but deep closet with shelving for extra storage, adjacent master bathroom, adjacent carpeted (Berber) walk-in closet with tongue and groove pine (unstained) and custom built-in shelving and drawers
- Master Bathroom features: Corian countertop, new light fixtures and new tile shower in 2019, slate flooring, 2 floor to ceiling windows with cherry wood blinds, large tub with jets, and a new tile shower with rain shower head, handheld shower head, built in tile cubby, glass door.
- 2 – Car Garage features: 2 built-in workbenches, pull-down ladder for upper storage
- “Garden” features: 4 mature apple trees, 12 mature blueberry bushes (different varieties), many mature garden trees, perennials (some with berries) planted especially for birds and pollinators, granite stone path from house to garage (also lining paths around the house), Day Lilies, Baptisia, Clethra (Summer Sweet) Shrubs, Winterberries, Viburnums, Daffodils
- Pond: Bluegill, Bass, Frogs, Turtles, easy access water level control
- Forest features: Certified Forest, in the third year of anti-invasive program with USDA, 59 acres of mature forest right up against the Hoosier National Forest (The rest of the acreage is cleared for the house, garage, garden area, barn and pond.), Mushroom hunting, hiking, wildflowers, deer (so plentiful we call them Orange County mice), birds (wood ducks come to pond every year, owls, hawks, songbirds, woodpeckers, pileated woodpeckers, hummingbirds, vultures, herons, great blue herons, sandhill cranes, etc.), mammals, reptiles, insects, and birds of Indiana galore, plenty of maple trees for tapping for maple syrup
- Other: Fiber Internet has been installed
- Shown by appointment only with advanced notice
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