Contacts:
Linda Hampson
New Hampshire office
Tel: 888-674-6773
Fax: 603-532-7037
e-mail: Linda

Gladys Fox
Massachusetts office
Tel: 888-635-0801
Fax: 978-635-9418
e-mail: Gladys

 

 

Boxborough, MA
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Offered at: $695,000
To show:  Call Wetherbee Farm Real Estate
Telephone: 978.635.0801 (or 888.635.0801)
Listing broker: Gladys R. Fox

Properties like this are few and far between!   Burroughs Farm, ca 1735, nestles into a quintessential Grandma Moses setting on 3.3 acres surrounded by APR property that will never be developed.  The home is a stately old New England farmhouse with its ell and attached barn; pristine details remain throughout the structures for your imaginative restoration plans.  The 4200 sf antique home comprises ten rooms, including 5 bedrooms and 2 baths. The property is situated in a quiet, central part of town along the old stagecoach road from Harvard and is set back from the road 300   feet, accessed by a stunning tree-lined drive.  Take possession of the home and add to the hundreds of years of history within its walls.  

A local historian has compiled the following data on this property:

House: The main block of the house is a side-gabled, 2 1/2-story, 5x2-bay Colonial style form.  A 2-story, perpendicular addition (our office is calling this the "ell") connects the barn which is parallel to the house.  Windows are 6/6 double-hung sash with moldings; the center entry has sidelights and a Colonial Revival hipped porch. The stout brick chimney is located at the center of the roof ridge; a second chimney rises from the roof of  the addition. 

Barn: The front-gabled barn is clad in wood clapboards on the facade and board and batten on the side elevation.   Openings in the facade include the central vehicle opening with interior hung rolling door and transom, window openings with hoods and 6/6 double-hung sash and a fixed 16 pane diamond shaped window in the gable peak  Architectural ornament on the facade of the barn includes the gable returns, molded cornice, hood over the vehicle door and corner boards; ornament on the side elevation is the arcaded frieze at the eave and above the board and batten wall field; a modern milk house addition has been made to the west side of the barn.

Other: The driveway is lined with stone walls and trees in an informal allée; large open fields are behind the farmhouse and barn. Two granite slab foundations exist to the west of the house.


 
Style: Colonial farmhouse  Rooms: 10  Flooring: Wood  Basement: Full 
Year built: Circa 1735  Bedrooms: Roof: Asphalt  Heat: Partial electric (ell) 
Restorable: Yes. Baths: 2 Electric: Needs new system  Hot Water: Electric
Porch: Small front entry porch  Laundry: Hookups Road: Public  Water: Private 
Exterior: Clapboards  Color: Light gold Fireplaces: 6 (some covered) Sewer: Private 
Foundation: Fieldstone  Zoning: Residential  Chapter 61A?: No  Sump pump: No 
Assessment: $TBD  Taxes: $TBD Year:    WCROD:  

 
 
Tree-lined driveway