A partial list of unique “selling points” about this area, property, home, other buildings and structures, etc which make it a wonderful value to a potential buyer/owner/developer:
Area
Northfield, New Hampshire
Did you know that Northfield, NH, used to be the “north field of Canterbury, NH”? Yes, Northfield was once Canterbury, the home of the now world famous Canterbury Shaker Village! How special is that? Whatever. This unique property, located in gorgeous, classic rural New England, Northfield, NH, is less than a quarter of a mile from Canterbury as the crow flies.
One hour and twenty minutes drive from downtown metropolitan Boston. Twenty minutes drive from the state capital, Concord. On the very well-maintained Interstates 95 and 93. Access to private schools and colleges. Sant Bani, Sanbornton. The University of New Hampshire, Concord. As well as access to the White Mountains and the beautiful Lakes Region, etc.
Unique selling points… um—
New Hampshire voted the number one state in the United States for old people? Must mean good health care, right? Hitchcock Clinic!! Go figure…
Live free or/and die… Right?
Good place to settle… be buried. Plenty of planting room in the quaint old… historical cemeteries. They’re all stacked up on top of one another down there in Mass. Frightful!! Not as many neighbors or ghosts to keep one awake at night.
Property
255 Peverly Road (aka. Dark Shadows Farm)
Sixty acres of bark-hungry, tree-munching beavers, white-tailed free-range “free meat on the hoof” deer, and savage blood thirsty ticks!! Hmmm. Not
all that unique. How about... Original site of a 19th century farmstead (when it used to be Canterbury). Many “Robert Frost” designed original stone walls (in need of attention) throughout this property indicative of a long time organic farming history. Plenty of back-breaking work stacking field stones if you’re bored.
And, an unlimited supply of granite field stones!!
No Indians to worry about. Or gangbangers.
Well. A good artesian well. Incredible water pressure!! Enough water for horses, livestock, farming, etc. Used to be cleared off and used for cattle grazing. I tore down the old, dilapidated dairy barn.
A graceful line of hundred-and-fifty year old sugar maples mark the roadside boundary to this classic old New England farmstead? All dying...
Year round flowing streams and a spring fed farm pond that never runs dry, water abounds on this old rundown heap of...
Close to the interstate for easy commute. But, far enough away from major population centers to enjoy nature, or what’s left of it.
A perfect southwestern exposure with plenty of honeyed warm sun light. Once mostly open pasture land as indicated by many old 19c. stone wall paddocks.
This gracious old farmstead is looking for that rare individual with a vision of what a good, sane, healthy life lived honestly on the land can be in this mad corporatized modern age.
Escape to your own private Idaho... in NH, before it’s too late.
Home
Built to non-toxic specifications for the city of Santa Fe (circa. 1995-8) this soulful, energy efficient, environmentally friendly, tiny, handmade, natural home has artist retreat, writer’s workshop, couples romantic getaway second home, dreamer, visionary, cross country skier, organic farmer, poet... written into its hemlock bones.
The heart and brain child of an eccentric artist, writer and wood-fired organic bread baker. A labor of love, art, environmentalism and poetry. Two-and-a-half well-considered years in the making. A house that Henry David Thoreau would have adored! This carefully meditated and wisely constructed home was stripped to the original hemlock studs and wide hemlock board sheathing, then rebuilt entirely using non-toxic, non- allergenic, life-friendly materials. You will find sustainably harvested Honduras mahogany tongue and groove floors, hand rubbed with non- toxic German citrus-based oils.
Handbuilt, one of a kind cabinets throughout, made by real, skilled professional, local New Hampshire craftsman! Without a single piece of plywood, particle board, oriented strand board... or any of those mass produced toxic materials—all cabinets and drawers—sport hand-turned, each one unique, wooden knobs, hand-dovetailed joints, and hand-rubbed non-toxic, eye-soothing finishes.
With organic cotton insulating the tongue-and-groove wooden bead board ceilings, and breathable Airkrete, a silicate based non-toxic foam blown into the clay and beeswax covered walls, and under the floors, you will be warm as toast in winter, and cool as a cucumber in summer!
This eco-friendly, tiny home... at 700 square feet... is efficiently heated by an abundance of “blow down” hardwood that abounds, free for the taking all over this truly magical sixty-acre property. With over two-thousand pounds of Finnish soapstone and seasoned hardwood fire, the new owner will be kept warm with a small bundle of wood a day by a Tulikivi LLU1250 soapstone cookstove.
Hello wood-fired pizza and organic, handmade fresh baked bread in the oven! This amazing cooking appliance, built by a certified Tulikivi technician from Vermont, also easily heats the home with a mere armload of wood a day... one firing when the temperatures hang in the twenties... and one armload again, two times a day, morning and evening, when the temperatures hang in around zero.
In case the new owner arrives late in the middle of a blizzard?! No problem. There is backup heating! Yes, an energy efficient Renai direct
vent, programmable propane heater makes the entire place comfortable in a matter of minutes.
Do you have a wine collection by chance?
Underneath the main floor of the home, you will find a ten-foot-deep, original 19c. field stone lined cellar. The perfect place, with the perfect natural temperature and moisture, to store those rare Chave Hermitage Rouge and Blanc bottles which will be awaiting your arrival on snowy winter eves.
Once the home of a small NH organic certified garden farm, you will have no problem having it re-certified for growing organic veggies. This property is free of pesticides, and has no history of toxic waste dumping, inside or out. So you can sleep easy at night, knowing your children are safe from environmental illnesses that are popping up everywhere these days!
Sorry. No protection available for spontaneous visits from Peter Fife, the local carpenter/local aristocratic original NH family... drunk, womanizing...
Hey Peter!! My old pal. We put the roof on together.
Buildings
Buildings
You will notice to the west, in the rear of the tiny, non-toxic nest, which might also serve as a perfect caretaker’s home, or, a visionary dreamer’s starter home while busy planning the next stage of your own private pleasure domain? You will notice then, a large timber frame structure arising like a mini palace of Versailles, or a Chartre cathedral wanna be... above an insulated reinforced, many-sided cement foundation. Do not be alarmed! This imposing structure was originally intended to house a straw bale wrapped, thatch roofed wood fired bread bakery. While this dream never came to fruition, the potential new creator, dreamer, artist, poet, baker, farmer, chef... buyer... should be informed that there is a leech field to the north of the aforementioned tiny home which was built for a four- bedroom house and a commercial bakery or restaurant business with up to six employees. This septic system and the site plan for the commercial bakery business have already been approved and recorded at town hall.
The current owner, who lives and works as an artist, writer... and a dedicated surfer... likes to refer to this structure as— THE WORLD’S BIGGEST BIRDHOUSE!! And I am sure that the Guinness’ Book of World Records will hold this to be an indisputable fact!!
Here is a tiny gem, then, an emerald gleam in the rough, waiting to be discovered by a rugged, imaginative country dreamer from the big city! Or, someone who is just plain old tired of the noise, the pollution, and the bumper to bumper traffic of Boston, the north shore commute and beyond...
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Dream small, dream big! But start dreaming again on this perfect little getaway retreat farmstead in the rural wastelands of Northfield, NH
