Home of the Week

Home of the Week: For $640k, an Acton ranch ready for you to hit the rail or trail

There are trails and rails in this town, and they move at very different speeds. This home is ready to help you navigate both.

The living room features a stone fireplace with a gas insert. photos by Fred Light/Nashua Video Tours

By John Ellement

3 minutes to read

107 Newtown Road, Acton

$640,000

Style Ranch

Year built 1960

Square feet 1,568

Bedrooms 3

Baths 2 full

Water/Sewer Private

Taxes $9,910 (2022)

There are trails and rails in this town, and they move at very different speeds. The town has a stop on the Fitchburg line of the MBTA’s commuter rail network (South Acton) and some 1,700 acres of conservation land marbled with trails. Need a guide? Here’s a trail map.

This contemporary ranch sits about 3 miles from the train station on a treed 1-plus-acre lot well back from the street. And if there is a word that can summarize it, that would be “succinct.’’ There is no ostentatious ornamentation, no Grecian columns, but there are organized, nicely laid out spaces.

A view of a cream-colored ranch home with windows framed in green and a bright red door. A single pine tree stands sentry in front of the house. Tall pines line the back yard. It is winter and overcast.
The home sits on an acre-plus. – Fred Light/Nashua Video Tours

The main entrance is a welcoming red door — a pop of color in contrast to the home’s tan siding and greenish-gray trim. The door opens into a foyer with the back of a stone fireplace on the right, cream-colored walls, and gray ceramic tile flooring.

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Where the stone wall ends, the 336-square-foot living room begins. A line of rectangular windows feeds natural light into the space, showing off the Brazilian cherry flooring that runs through much of the home. A ceiling fan helps distribute the warmth coming from a gas fireplace clad in stone.

The ceiling here (vaulted) is slatted wood, as are the walls. The latter are painted an off-white.

A view toward the front entrance, which is lined with rock on the left and thin-strip wood paneling on the right. The red front door is open. It is adorned with a green wreath with a red bow. The ceiling is wood paneling in a natural tone. The flooring is ceramic tile. A green bench with a pillow sits next to the right wall. A square mirror hangs on the wall.
The entrance floor is lined with ceramic tile, an excellent choice for durability against the New England elements. – Fred Light/Nashua Video Tours
A view of a room with thin-strip paneling on the walls, a wood-plank ceiling, and Brazilian cherry flooring. A rocking chair with a blue pillow sits in the foreground next to a rock wall. In the background, one sees a blue bench with blue and white pillows and wicker bins, a closet with a bifold door, a painting in a wood frame, an expanse of hallway, and a console with a lamp, a goldfish bowl, and a vase. An oil painting of a sand drifts hangs above the console.
Wood lines the floor and the ceiling in this room. – Fred Light/Nashua Video Tours
A view of the living room and the front entrance. The ceiling is wood strips, and the flooring is Brazilian cherry, except for next to the front door, where is is gray ceramic tile. In the background, there is a gray sectional in front of a bank of at least six windows.
A view of the living room and the front entrance. – Fred Light/Nashua Video Tours

Doorways off the living room lead to the 132-square-foot formal dining room, which features the same painted slatted wood, thin crown molding, a flush-mount light, and a row of rectangular windows with gray frames. It currently holds a round table for four and a corner china cabinet, which isn’t built in.

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The adjoining kitchen is 144 square feet and offers a décor that is clearly country. The cabinets are knotty pine; the appliances, which include a gas stove, are stainless steel; and the counters are a sandy-colored laminate. A long rectangular window, flanked by sidelights that open, fills the space, and then some, above the sink. The room also has recessed lighting — making it all the better to see that recipe. The walls are plastered and cream-colored.

Knotty-pine cabinets line the kitchen walls.
Knotty-pine cabinets line the kitchen walls. – Fred Light/Nashua Video Tours
A dining room with a round table and four green ladder-back chairs. A dark brown china cabinet sits in the back corner. The walls are paneled in narrow strips painted cream. A glass vase with yellow flowers sits in the middle of the table. A bank of four windows with green frames looks out onto a wintry landscape on a cloudy day.
The dining offers a country look with painted, wood-slat walls. – Fred Light/Nashua Video Tours

A hallway off the kitchen leads to the primary suite, two secondary bedrooms, a full bath, and a laundry room with space for full-size appliances, a ceramic tile floor, and a door to the backyard.

Down the hall, the first bedroom appears on the left, is 132 square feet, and features an accent wall of birch tree wallpaper. It gets light from a bank of four windows and offers a curtained wall of closets.

Next down the hall is a full bath, which comes with a ceramic tile floor, a shower/tub combination behind a curtain, and a wall-mounted porcelain sink.

The second bedroom sits behind a pair of French doors and serves as an office. The 242-square-foot space does not have a closet, but it does offer direct access to the two-bay garage.

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The final stop is the owner suite, which is 208 square feet. Highlights: recessed lighting, a bank of four rectangular windows, and an updated shower-only bath with a tile floor, a ceramic tile shower surround, a single gray vanity topped with a man-made material, and a crank window.

A bedroom with recessed lighting, a full-size bed, and a small end table with a single, small lamp with a white shade. The bed is dressed in a thick white comforter and pillows with white shams. The flooring is Brazilian cherry. A bank of four windows with dark frames looks out on a wintry landscape on a cloudy day.
The primary bedroom gets natural light from a bank of four windows. – Fred Light/Nashua Video Tours
A view of a gray bathroom with a gray-and-white checkered shower curtain. The white sink is wall-mounted. The toilet is white. A towel holder with a single white towel hangs on the left wall. Two lights with tulip-like shades hang over a mirrored medicine cabinet.
The home’s shared full bath has a tub/shower combination and a wall-mounted sink. – Fred Light/Nashua Video Tours
A bedroom used as an office. It has banks of cubbies with bins, a desk in front of a bank of windows, a light-colored couch with gray pillows, a coat rack, recessed lighting, and Brazilian cherry flooring.
This bedroom, which does not have a closet, has recessed lighting, French doors, and a door to the garage. – Fred Light/Nashua Video Tours
A view into the primary suite, which has light-colored walls, a queen-size bedroom with a white, quilted comforter. The bed sits on a blue-and-white rug. The window frames are gray. The bed has an upholstered headboard. The flooring is Brazilian cherry.
The primary bedroom suite gets natural light from a bank of windows. – Fred Light/Nashua Video Tours
A view inside a blue shower-only bath with a single gray vanity topped with a white sink and nickel fixtures. A narrow crank window sits above a rack with two gray bath towels. The shower has a crub and a curtain with cubes of different colors on a white background. The floor is ceramic tile in a light color. The shower surround is composed of tile a shade of gray.
The primary suite bath offers a single vanity and a curb shower. – Fred Light/Nashua Video Tours
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The laundry room has an exterior door, perfect for shedding wet mittens. – Fred Light/Nashua Video Tours

The home comes with a whole-house water filtration and softening system.

The radon mitigation system has a five-year warranty on the fan. The home does not have a basement.

An aerial view of a home covered in snow framed by mature pines.
An aerial view of the property. – Fred Light/Nashua Video Tours

Beth Benker of Team Suzanne and Company at Compass has the listing. As of press time, an offer had been accepted on the property.

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