Offered for private sale; 3.25% commission to successful buyer's agent. Historic Cumberland colonial situated on 5.42 acres with river frontage and a variety of beautiful period features intact, including pine floors, massive central chimney servicing 6 fireplaces (all open with newer dampers) and beehive oven, patterned tin ceilings in study, winter kitchen, and living room. Post and beam ell featuring approx. 19 x 45 foot workshop space on ground floor (and room for three cars), second floor with windows and exposed beams. Queen post timber frame barn measuring approx. 40 x 60 ft with six horse stalls. Original block milking shed. Newer (and tasteful) metal roof over all structures but milking shed. Finished living space: 2,676 square feet with room to renovate another 1,000+. Three-four bedrooms, 2 full baths. Ninety percent (90%) carbon neutral systems installed in 2013, although 2011 System 2000 oil furnace could be made available. Concrete septic tank (1,000 gal.) installed in 2013. Fly fish for wild brookies or stocked browns on the Piscataqua River. Antique apple orchard in phase one restoration. Bountiful sugar maples for tapping. Field is rich in clover, antique vervain, and autumn aster. Soil is miraculous. Full sun all day. Blue birds by the flock in early spring. Writing in the 1970s, Cumberland historian Phyllis Sturdivant Sweetser observed of the property, 'Orrin Whitney homestead can be traced back for over a century and a half and was probably constructed during the last of the American Revolution. It was later owned by Walter Morrill, who was a veteran of the Civil War.' Sweetser, Phyllis, Sturdivant. Cumberland Maine in Four Centuries. The Town of Cumberland, Maine (1976), P. 228. Old is the new new. For Buyers' Agents: We would like to explore a private sale in the first instance. Disclosure available upon request. Very pleased to offer a 3.25% commission to the successful buyer's agent. Showings of house and property strictly by appointment only.
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