Home of the Week: Contemporary overlooks harbor from Marblehead hill
The property, which has three bedrooms and 2.5 baths, is priced at $1.19 million. View more listings in this community at realestate.boston.com.
2 Roundy’s Hill, Marblehead
$1,198,500
Style: Contemporary
Year built: 1976
Square feet: 2,867
Bedrooms: 3
Baths: 2 full, 1 half
Sewer/water: Public
Taxes: $10,022 (2018)
A shared driveway leads to a crushed-stone parking area where the landscape design mixes stones, boulders, flowers, plants, and trees into a welcome mat of sorts for this house, one of only two atop Roundy’s Hill, a spot in this North Shore community that seems nearly as high as the town’s iconic Abbot Hall clock tower.
And then there are the views of Marblehead Harbor.
Entry into this home is through a curved doorway of refinished oak and into a foyer where the house further reveals its uniqueness: Nearly everything on the first floor is on its own level. Three steps up from the foyer is the kitchen, and from there it’s five steps up to the living room.
The small effort is more than worth it.
The kitchen is galley-like in that it is compact, but it has all one needs: a breakfast area, blond cabinets, brown marble-tile counters, and stainless-steel appliances, including a gas stove. A door leads to a side deck that’s perfect for grilling.
Across the way is a formal dining room with two sets of hanging lights and three long rectangular windows. The flooring here is like no other in the house — refinished face-nailed oak.
It’s another level up to one of the grandest spaces of this house, a 544-square-foot living room with a harbor framed by two stories of glass. One can sit inside and enjoy the view or step onto the deck to enjoy the sea breeze.
The cathedral ceiling is slightly more than 22 feet high and crisscrossed by thick brown beams that look like the ribs of a new boat. Playing second fiddle to the view is the floor-to-ceiling stone fireplace, one that hasn’t been used in years.
A half bath off the foyer completes the first floor.
A stairwell made of 5-foot-wide slabs of shiny oak leads to the top level and an office space with pocket doors to the master suite. The bedroom is open to the floor below, but more important, it offers a commanding ocean view.
The walls and floor of the master bath are brown marble. The space has a white ceramic pedestal sink and a shower/jetted tub combo behind a clear-glass wall. Windows allow one to see the seagoing vessels as they transit across the harbor. The master suite offers three closets, two walk-ins off a dressing room and one with a stacked laundry setup.
The home’s two other bedrooms and second full bath are on the lowest level. One of the bedrooms has a red-brick fireplace that hasn’t been used in a while, but both have access to a deck that leads to a small private road that runs down to Old Town, a neighborhood of narrow streets and historic Colonials. The second full bath has a whirlpool tub with a shower and a ceramic tile surround and a single vanity with a scalloped-marble sink.
The home, which is topped with a widow’s walk that is only decorative, sits on a 0.56-acre lot. It has undergone renovations twice since 2008.
Heather Stewart Kaznoski and Mary Stewart of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage in Marblehead are the listing agents. They will hold an open house on Sunday, July 15, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
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