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Rhode Island Cape gets a glow up. Price: $514,900.
Property offers three bedrooms, 2.5 baths, a fenced-in yard, and breakfast and dry bars.
992 Victory Highway, Burrillville, Rhode Island
$514,900
Style Cape
Year built 1920
Square feet 1,905
Bedrooms 3
Baths 2 full, 1 half
Sewer/water Public/private (new well)
Taxes $3,964 (2024)
Home buyers, brokers say, are drawn like moths (you know the rest) to homes that have been renovated, rebuilt, or resurrected.
Enter 992 Victory Highway, a Cape-style home in this small town in the northwest corner of Rhode Island that’s about 65 miles from Boston and some 23 miles from Providence. The home is 104 years old, but it doesn’t look like it was built the same year the 19th Amendment was ratified, given the recently completed renovations.
The porch columns, fencing, and front door framing show the beauty of natural wood and stand out against the home’s green exterior. The front door opens directly into the 223-square-foot living room, where the wood flooring, original to the home and laid out in a square, gleams with a new finish. The space also features recessed lights, exposed beams, and walls painted in Sherwin-Williams’s “Agreeable Gray” — a neutral color palette that is carried throughout the house. The flooring is white oak.
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The living room is open to a 136-square-foot dining area that has a new black pellet stove — creating the perfect setting for warming up with the newspaper on a lazy winter Saturday in New England. In keeping with the aesthetic, slate tile sits underneath and behind it. A ductless mini-split heating and cooling unit, another sign that this home has been updated inside and out, hangs on the wall beside the stove. The wood flooring here, also original to the home, forms a square. Refresh your coffee at the breakfast bar, which sits at the far end of the space, next to the kitchen and the stairs to the second level.
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The kitchen, which measures 133 square feet, features granite countertops, cherry cabinets, stainless steel appliances, a built-in spice rack, and a glossy white subway tile backsplash that rises to the ceiling on one wall. The stove is electric, the flooring is white oak, and recessed lights dot the ceiling. The double sink sits under a window overlooking the side yard, but there’s no need to lug your pot to the sink on spaghetti or soup night. There’s a pot filler by the stove.
A doorway connects the kitchen to a family room (317 square feet) with black slate flooring and cedar slats on the ceiling. The space boasts a dry bar that sits behind knotty pine wainscoting and before a black accent wall. Natural light fills the space via skylights, two windows, and French doors to the backyard of the 0.22-acre lot. Sputnik light fixtures add a modern touch.
The primary bedroom suite is on the first floor off the living room. The bedroom is 141 square feet and offers a chair rail, three windows, Douglas fir flooring, a walk-in closet, and a full bath off a private hallway with recessed lighting. The bath, which sits behind a sliding door with five frosted-glass panels, comes with white double vanities that have granite tops and matte black single-hole faucets beneath a lighted mirror with a defogger. The flooring is ceramic tile that looks like slate, but the surround in the standalone shower is white porcelain with a gray hexagonal tile inlay. That same gray tile covers the floor of the shower, which has a rain shower head.
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The home’s second full bath is off the living room. It has a shower insert, a single white vanity, a matte black single-hole faucet, and a lighted mirror with a defogger. The flooring is porcelain tiles that look like slate. The laundry closet is next to this bath.
The upper level contains the two other bedrooms and a third room — at 255 square feet, it’s the largest space on this level — with a half bath. The two bedrooms, which are 244 square feet and 193 square feet, have the original pine flooring, a single-door closet, and one window.
The basement is unfinished. The property includes a detached shed, driveway parking, and a winding stone walkway in the backyard.
Other changes to the home include 200-amp electric service, updated electrical and plumbing, and new well pumps and mechanicals.
Kimberly Rodrigues of eXp Realty in Boston and Westerly, Rhode Island, has the listing.
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