Reading, VT, 05062 - For Sale By Owner

Additional features: Floors: 3, Garage size: 4.0, School district: Windsor County, Features: Fireplace, Carpeted Floors, Wood Floors

This lovely property consists of the Main House, a restored 150 year old +/- house, plus a garage/office/additional bedroom & bath annex built around 1986 on just under eight pastoral acres with stone walls, hardwoods, open pasture and streams.

A fine horse property adjacent to 100 miles of dirt road riding trails and only five miles to "Green Mountain Horse Association" - finest equestrian facility of its kind in the US. The Main House has a living room, formal dining room, sun room/den, grade level 12 foot by 24 foot cedar deck, large modern kitchen, four/five bedrooms, three bathrooms, an attached garage and a 3/4 full height basement plus crawl space.

The living room has two beautiful Palladian windows, almost floor-to-ceiling, custom and hand made of clear pine wood (not plastic inserts) and a Vermont Castings blue enameled wood stove. Two of the upstairs bedrooms have old random width polished wood floors with hand made nails.

The heating system for the main part of the house is oil fired forced air and the furnace is justxa0two years old (Thermo Pride high efficiency unit) and the 330 gallon oil tank is justxa0three years old. The water tank isxa0a year old and operates at 40/60 psi and has an 84 gallon capacity.

The annex consists of a three bay heated garage (three zone, gas fired hot water system) barn-like in appearance, with a 1/2 bath. All or part of the garage bay could be easily converted into additional living space. There are three bedrooms on the second floor with ensuite bathrooms and an office and photographic lab on the third floor. This annex could be used as a rental apartment, in-law apartment, caretaker quarters, guest quarters or home business, antique/craft shop etc. Both the Main House and the Annex have dedicated septic systems approved for four and three bedroom use respectively.

Aboutxa0three years ago the property was professionally appraised at $675,000 (usd) with increasing value predicted.

The property is bordered to the north by an additional 13.5 +/- acres which is "improved" in that it has a driveway to a most desirable lot with views of Mount Ascutney and the village church steeple. Electrical power is readily available and preliminary septic has been approved. The property is bordered to the south by an additional 8.0 +/- acres. These can be considered as "additional land available" at additional costs.

This property was successfully operated as "The Peeping Cow Bed & Breakfast" for almost twenty years. It was featured in Christie's (Fine Art Auctioneers) fund raisers. The property is centrally situated in the state with easy access to all outdoor sports, three major ski area resorts, a short drive to one of the nations "ten most beautiful villages", Woodstock (Vermont), Dartmouth College, Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital (Dartmouth's New Medical Center) and Hopkins Cultural Center (again a Dartmouth facility).

We are just minutes from two major Interstate Highways (I-89 & I-91) and thirty five minutes to Lebanon, NH airport. Additional photographs available on request

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