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Oceanfront Timberframe Cottage
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ABOUT THIS WONDERFUL HOME...
Oceanfront Timberframe Cottage is a rare and exciting waterfront ESCAPE. With vaulted 14-foot beamed ceilings, mahogany countertops, a stone fireplace, wide pine floors, and a spacious great room/kitchen, white wood planked walls, 1.5 acres of expanse of stunning ocean view, nearby sandy Plymouth Long Beach. This amazing home is in a private verdant seaside setting just 4 miles to downtown Plymouth historic sites, plentiful good restaurants and shops, -- with easy access to sightseeing, whale-watching, deep sea fishing, antiquing, boutiques, golf, historic homes, beach combing, and swimming.
From the oceanfront breezeway, you take in the breathtaking view sweeping from Plymouth Harbor over to Provincetown. There are vivid sunsets , twinkling lights of Plymouth, see the beacon from the Gurnet lighthouse across the Bay. While the rocky shoreline at the base of the bluff is inaccessible, Plymouth Long Beach and many other seaside destinations are nearby.
Stepping inside, you enter the Great Room with its stone fireplace, timber trusses, barn-wood ceiling, and wall of glass looking out on the ocean. Attractively decorated with white slip-covered furniture, the Great Room has wide pine floors , antique cupboards with beveled-mirror doors (reflecting the ocean view). The kitchen runs the length of the Great Room and has a 14-foot long mahogany-plank island with two undermount sinks/Grohe faucets, Fisher-Paykel dish 2-drawer dishwasher, induction cooktops, (for cool stove top cookimg you can rearrange to face the water, and a Miele convection oven allowing the cook (or master of canapes and wine) to be part of the Great Room family gathering while enjoying the wraparound view. The fireplace is flanked with tall antique Ottoman doors, brought back from Cyprus. These ivide the Great Room from one of the sleeping zones. Just off the Great Room is a main floor bedroom with raised sleeping alcove that juts out toward the ocean and features a queen-size four-poster British West Indies bed. Here, posts and beams create a jewel box effect with ocean views all around. The high windows let you peer at starlight high above the Atlantic. The bedroom's French doors open onto the wraparound mahogany deck — with outdoor shower with light house and ocean views — that connects all around to the Great Room and kitchen.p almost to the shady breezeway.
This handsomely renovated cottage has two full baths in the main house — one upstairs with a mahogany countertop, vessel sink, Grohe faucet, marble shower with pebble floor, and skylights above the shower and toilet. Lower level, a leisure/sleeping room with fireplace, bathroommwith 4 foot shower, and separate toilet alcove around the corner for privacy by the walk in closet.
Best of all is the new oceanfront master suite, attached to the house by the delightful waterfront breezeway. It has a vaulted wood ceiling with beams, vertical pine wood walls painted white, private toilet room with vanity (water closet/powder room behind rolling barn door) in addition to the jaw-dropping oceanfront bathroom with Kohler walk in shower with optional adjustable seat and grab bars, 9 foot Carrara marble antique vanity with under-mount sink and splendid views of the ocean from the vanity and the shower (and the huge glass doors in the bedroom area.)
The open floor plan offers flexibility for those with just 2 couples wanting space and luxury, or larger families with children spilling into the spacious lower level, with its own full bath (laundry room is also on lower level).
We provide everything you can imagine for your comfort and convenience: Ample nice linens, towels, beach towels, laundry supplies, a well-stocked kitchen with spices, oil, condiments, and baking needs, ice maker, Miele convection oven, induction cooktops (so you can move them and cook facing the ocean) quality pots and pans, nice dishes, quality wine glasses and glassware, silverware, small appliances, toaster, paper goods like coffee filters, paper towels, bathroom tissue, napkins, excellent, up-to-date air-conditioning, two gas fireplaces, quality Weber gas grill with propane, firewood for the fire pit, easy access to Plymouth Long Beach just 2 miles away, or (depending on availability) parking for one car at our House by the Sea where we have a magnificent private Hawaii-like beach.
The neighborhood is very interesting. It used to be the elaborate Stone Estate, a magnificent spread with mansion, stables, gardener's cottage, caretaker's cottage, pool house with saltwater pool, polo field with stone ramparts, and a guest house modeled after the tea house at Versailles. If you remind me, I will send you an aerial photograph of the estate from the 1930s which shows the extensive grounds, buildings and hinterlands of forested oceanfront acreage (where our house now sits).
Downtown Plymouth has great restaurants, a live music scene, and interesting shops, pubs, and parks. Nearby are Plimoth/Pawtuxet Museum, which is like a trip in a time machine back to the 1600s, Plymouth Rock, whale watching, historic homes, and many other attractions. From Oceanfront Timberframe you can make day trips to Boston, the mansions of Newport, and the Cape — where you can catch the ferry to Martha’s Vineyard or Nantucket. A summer ferry also connects Plymouth and Provincetown, avoiding a long car trip.
Then again, you may never want to leave oceanfront Timberframe cottage, because it is so beautiful and peaceful.
Please see our other listings if Oceanfront Timberframe Cottage is already taken.
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