Just some miles from the enterprise district of Chester, New Jersey, is a bucolic property with 52 acres of preserved farmland. Its many vintage buildings, together with a five-bedroom foremost home with the unique part courting again to the 1700s, have been expanded and up to date to trendy tastes.
Known as Black River Farm, the property is restricted from growth and is bordered by parkland, different preserved properties and the Lamington River.
“It is one of the crucial lovely areas of Chester Township,” stated Karen Tourville of Turpin Realtors, who’s co-listing the property along with her daughter, Alison Tourville. “It is simply this little slice of heaven but you are actually near downtown Chester.”
The primary Colonial Revival residence was constructed within the 1770s and has been expanded during the last twenty years, with a few of the unique tree trunk beams nonetheless seen within the basement, Tourville stated.
The expanded kitchen has partitions of white cupboards, a big island with built-in vary and second sink and encompasses a eating space. Subsequent to the kitchen is a small sitting room with one of many residence’s seven fireplaces.
The formal eating room options vertical wine storage constructed with barn wooden from the property. The identical weathered wooden wraps round columns by a staircase separating the eating room from the dwelling space. The primary degree additionally has a big wood-paneled library, and there’s a further household room that at present hosts a billiards desk.
The first bed room has a hearth and en suite toilet with twin vanities and a glass-enclosed bathe. Upstairs can also be a lounge space with giant home windows that overlook the property.
A two-story cottage on the property was renovated final yr and comes with two bedrooms and two full bogs. It may be used as a visitor or employees home or residence workplace. The present house owners use a two-story financial institution barn for social occasions.
Subsequent to the heated Gunite pool and bluestone patio is a pool pavilion constructed from rustic wooden with an open lounge space that includes a flatscreen TV and a glass-paneled roof. It is adjoined by an out of doors kitchen and spa.
An tools barn has stalls for horses and can be utilized along with the indifferent three-car storage to retailer two extra vehicles. Extra outbuildings embrace a renovated corn crib, hen coop and fieldstone spring home.
There’s loads of room for mountaineering, cross-country snowboarding and elevating animals, and extra constructions associated to farming may be constructed, topic to zoning approval, Tourville stated.
The 52-acre unfold is in the marketplace for $3.495 million.
MORE FROM FORBES GLOBAL PROPERTIES
Supply: www.forbes.com