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Listed for $2.49 million: A Winchester Colonial featured on ‘This Old House’

The butler’s pantry serves several roles: coffee station by day, wet bar with a wine chiller by night, and a pass-through to the dining room anytime. 

The exterior of the home is symmetrical, with several windows and two dormers. There is a large, grassy yard in front.
Listed for $2,499,000, the 4,753-square-foot home features five bedrooms, four full bathrooms, and one half bathroom. Carven Boursiquot

By Kelly Garrity -- Boston.com correspondent

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The cozy Colonial at 42 Cabot St. in Winchester retains all the charm of a turn-of-the-last-century home without showing its age. 

Built in 1920, the home was tastefully restored in the early 2000s on the show “This Old House.” Since then, it has undergone a handful of renovations to keep things fresh, including new floors and a new island in the kitchen, listing agent Sven Andersen of Andersen Group Realty said. 

Listed for $2,499,000, the 4,753-square foot-home features five bedrooms, four full bathrooms, and one half bathroom. 

Despite the updates, the home has retained its Colonial character, with a gabled roof and twin dormers. Inside, the first-floor rooms are spacious and bright, thanks to the soft colors of the walls and abundant windows. 

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The first floor is home to a sizable kitchen with soapstone counters, a marble island, and a small dining area. Earthy-green cabinetry and soft pendant lights over the island add a calming touch to the open space. There’s also a butler’s pantry that plays a number of roles: a coffee station by day, a wet bar with sink and wine chiller by night, and a pass-through to the dining room anytime. 

A shiny white table with six wooden chairs set up around is in the foreground of this photo of the kitchen. The room has wood floors and several windows. Toward the back of the room, there are several light-green cabinets. There is an island with a white countertop and several stools set up at it in the center of the kitchen area.
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The butler's pantry also serves as a wet bar. There is a wine chiller and white drawers and cabinets under a wood countertop. A sink is built into the the counter and there are brightly lit cabinets above. The dining room is visible through the doorway.
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The dining room is one of the most striking spaces in the home, with steel-gray walls of built-in bookshelves that make it feel more like an eat-in library than a formal dining space. 

The walls of the dining room are made up of dark gray bookshelves, lined with books and decorations. There is a wood table in the middle of the room, with three black-cushioned chairs on each side and two wooden chairs at the head and the foot. A pendant light hangs over the table.
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Also on the first level is the living room, a roomy space made cozier by a wood-burning fireplace with an intricately carved mantel. Two sets of French doors on either side of the fireplace open to a sunroom the seller used as an office/playroom, and a third set leads to the backyard. 

Two chairs, a blue couch and a gray couch are set up around a large black coffee table. The floors are a light colored wood. There are French double-doors in the right corner of the photo. The fireplace, which features a detailed wood mantle, is to the left of this.
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The sunroom has white, beadboard walls on one side and exposed brick on the other. There is a white rug over the tile floor and a light-gray couch at the end of room. Several windows and a glass-paned door line the left wall.
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The wood floors throughout this level — most of which are original — were stripped and resurfaced during one of the renovations, Andersen said, giving them a more natural finish. 

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The second floor is home to two bedrooms and the primary suite, which features an expansive walk-in closet with wood built-ins, a private deck, and a bathroom with a steam shower, tile floor, and a double-sink vanity with granite countertops. There’s also a full bathroom with a combination shower/tub on this level.

There are two twin beds, one at either side of the room. The floors are wood, and this is a small rug between the two beds. The back wall is dark blue speckled with white. There are three windows letting natural light into the room.
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A crib sits in the corner of this bedroom, with a window on the walls on either side of it. The windows each have long drapes. The floors are wood, and there is a decorative rug covering much of them. A short bookcase filled with books sits toward the left side of the room.
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A large king or queen bed sits against the wall in the primary bedroom. The walls and ceilings are white and the floor is wood. There is a gray rug in the floor under the bed, and white comforter, blue blanket and several pillows on top of the bed. In the far left of the photo, these is a darker gray cushion chair. There is a door to the porch to the right of that.
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The walk-in closet in the primary bedroom has wood floors and wood walls. The walls are mostly made up of built-in shelves, most of which have clothes folded on them or hanging from them. There is a window in the back wall letting natural light in.
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The primary bathroom has a decorative tile floor, white walls and a white ceiling. There is a charcoal-gray vanity with two sinks along the left wall. The toilet sits to the right of that. There is a single window in the back wall. The shower door is just visible along the left wall.
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The other two bedrooms are on the third floor, as well as a full bathroom with a tub and a pedestal sink. 

This bedroom has wood floors and a sloping rood. There is a puffy bed with a white comforter and light pink sheets and pillow against the back wall. There are two windows in the right side wall, and the edge of a chair is visible in the right corner of the photo.
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The bathroom is all white-- floors, ceilings, toilet, tub and sink. A window over the tub lets natural light into the room. The pedestal sink is to the left of the tub, below a medicine-cabinet mirror. The toilet is to the left of that.
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Despite the home’s age, the property comes with modern amenities. The finished basement includes a wine cellar and a media room, as well as an ample laundry room with a washer, dryer, and sink. However, it’s the property’s “Old-World charm” that really makes it special, Andersen said.

The wall on the right side of the wine cellar is taken up by a wine rack that reached from the floor almost all the way to the ceiling. The other visible is exposed brick that has been painted white. There's another short wine rack along this wall. The racks are mostly full of bottle of wine and there are more bottles stacked on a table and on the top of a wine refrigerator in the foreground.
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An L-shaped couch sits in the middle of the media room in the finished basement. There are wood floors and white walls. Track lights are visible in the top right corner of the room.
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The laundry room has wood floors and recessed lighting. there is a washer and a dryer next to each other under a dark counter top along the back wall. there is a large white sink to the left of that. A light colored rug sits in the middle of the room.
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“This property has a lot of unique attributes to it. I think these homeowners really took the time, energy, and effort to make it right,” he said. 

As “This Old House” put it, “instead of a shirt brought home from the store, it’s an old favorite just back from the laundry.”

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