Home of the Week: West Roxbury Cape with three-season porch for $539,000
This three-bedroom home was built in 1910 but has updated kitchen and baths. Search more Fall House Hunt listings at realestate.boston.com.
50 Stimson St., West Roxbury
$539,000
Style: Nantucket Cape
Year built: 1910
Square feet: 1,208
Bedrooms: 3
Baths: 1 full, 1 half
Sewer/water: Public
Taxes: $4,185 (2018, without residential exemption)
Since it’s not at the center of the house, the entry stairwell to this Nantucket Cape that sits squarely atop a 4,449-square-foot lot in West Roxbury seems a bit askew. But it leads up to a three-season porch that runs the length of the house.
Stepping inside, there is a small foyer. On the right is an entry that connects to the dining room, replete with an original china cabinet with a clear-glass door, an updated chandelier, and built-in shelving underneath a set of windows. The room is currently painted a golden yellow with white accent lines.
Separating the living and dining rooms is another holdover from the original 1910 design: Built-in chests for glasses, also with clear-glass doors, are on either side of two columns. The living room itself is large, occupying a full third of the first floor, with natural light from four windows. The flooring here and in the dining room is hardwood.
From the foyer, a door on the left leads to the first of three bedrooms, which is long with a window at one end.
The kitchen, found at the rear of the home, has been fully updated. On the right-hand side, there is a long counter of dark granite that pauses for the kitchen sink (underneath a window) before it completes its run at the rear wall. The backsplash is white subway tile with a thin accent line of dark glass tiles. The cabinets are white, and the appliances are stainless steel (including the gas stove). White Nantucket bead board counterpoints the dark porcelain floor.
A small dining area is sandwiched between a window and a short hallway/mudroom that connects to the back door. A half bath with a pedestal sink is off the kitchen.
Back in the foyer, the wide stairs lead to a small landing where there’s a full bath on the left. Updated, it has Nantucket bead-board wainscot, a single white vanity with a granite counter, and a shower/bath combo. The flooring is white and black tile.
The master is a long room shaped by dormers common to Capes. There is a single closet with a shallow alcove beside it. The upstairs bedrooms are carpeted.
The second bedroom has a single window, a decent closet, and a cast-iron radiator.
The laundry area is in the unfinished basement. There is a single-car garage under the house and a short driveway.
The backyard is in two parts: There’s a fenced-in patio covered by a lighted tent with a fire pit in the center. A gate opens to a hilly splash of green grass that also serves as the property line on the right side of the house.
The listing agents, Katie Grealish and Michael Dorion of William Raveis Residential Group in the South End, will hold open houses on Saturday, Oct. 6, and Sunday, Oct. 7, from noon to 1:30 p.m.
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