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Kingston Home of the Week invites you to take the plunge rain or shine
Colonial comes with greenhouse-style pool room, four bedrooms, 2.5 baths, a den, and a bonus room.
14 Walter Faunce Road, Kingston
$959,000
Style Garrison Colonial
Year built 1993
Square feet 2,500
Bedrooms 4
Baths 2 full, 1 half
Sewer/water Private/public
Taxes $9,949 (2024)
If the water is warm but the surrounding air wintry cold, does jumping into a pool count as a polar bear plunge? This home on Boston’s South Shore has the proper research laboratory: an inground pool covered with greenhouse-like glass and a steel frame.
The heated pool is attached to the rear of this Kingston home, a house that includes, among its other attributes, a 550-square-foot bonus room and a homage to the color blue and its various shades.
A gently curving walkway of red brick travels past the breezeway and ends at the front door in the center of this white Garrison Colonial.
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The foyer contains the stairwell to the second level and forms a T intersection with a hallway that binds the right and left sides of the home. This hallway contains a half bath with a granite-topped vanity, connections for the washer and dryer, and a door to the pool area.
Moving to the right in the hallway leads to a 138-square-foot updated kitchen that boasts an island with storage and a spot for a microwave. The kitchen’s quartz countertops, Shaker-style cabinets, and subway tile backsplash are white, but the metal chairs positioned along two sides of the island are a darker shade of turquoise than the walls. (This combo — white with pops of various shades of blue — is a design choice carried throughout the home.) The appliances are stainless steel, and the double sink is positioned underneath two windows with views of the backyard. The flooring is oak.
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The kitchen is open to a light-blue front-to-back family room that currently serves as an airy dining room. On one end, a line of narrow windows overlooks the breezeway. On the opposite end, a wall of windows and a slider bring in lots of natural light. The flooring remains hardwood.
The final room on this end of the house is the breezeway entry point, which includes another set of stairs to the second floor.
The front-to-back living room (291 square feet) takes up the entire left side of the home on this level. The blue on display here is a navy offset by white trim, wainscoting, and crown molding. This space features a wood-burning fireplace with a white mantel, four windows, recessed lighting, a ceiling fan, and a slider to the 1,446-square-foot pool room. The flooring is oak.
A navy blue den with wainscoting completes this floor.
The four bedrooms, including the primary suite, are clustered on the left side of the house upstairs. The primary suite (182 square feet) comes with a ceiling fan, wood flooring, a double closet, light-aqua walls, and a shower-only bath with a charcoal gray single vanity topped with granite. There’s ceramic tile on the floor and in the shower. A multi-hued glass inlay breaks up the tile, which looks like marble.
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The three other bedrooms range in size from 125 to 173 square feet and share a full bath with a shower/tub combination and a long, white single vanity with a granite top. The flooring is an engineered hardwood.
A loft connects the bedrooms to the aforementioned bonus room, which is above the two-car garage. It offers a ceiling fan, wood flooring, and light-blue walls. The flooring is oak.
The Kingston home, which sits on a 1.02-acre lot, comes with oil heat, central air, a ductless mini-split system, and a second detached two-car garage. The basement is unfinished.
The furnace was replaced about two years ago, and the roof is roughly three years old.
Moriah Wicker from the Moriah Wicker Team at Keller Williams Realty Colonial Partners in Plymouth has this Kingston listing.
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