Home of the Week

Home of the Week: A 1900 Stoughton Colonial updated for 2025

This 4-bedroom, 2-bath charmer has hardwood floors and is brightened by windows and skylights.

The front of the home is filled with windows. SOJOURNER MEDIA

By John R. Ellement

August 27, 2025

3 minutes to read

39 Talbot Street

$634,900

Style Colonial

Year built 1900

Square feet 1,877

Bedrooms 4

Baths 2 full

Sewer/Water Public

Taxes $6,088 (2025)

It’s called dragon teeth shingling in some quarters. But the use of it at the peak of the front of this Colonial home adds a sense of welcome, not concerns about mythical creatures, especially given the wide array of windows that are also visible.

From the driveway on the right side, four steps lead up to a covered porch and the front entry to the 125-year-old home. Beyond the front door is an updated place ready for today.

The current owners have long used the living room as their formal dining room. – SOJOURNER MEDIA

In the foyer, there is a stairway on the right leading upstairs. To the left, a doorway leads to the 153-square-foot living room that includes a bump-out with windows on three sides and walls covered with Nantucket beadboard. The current owners have long used the living room as their formal dining room.

Just beyond the living/dining room, the first-floor level hosts the first of four bedrooms, a 102-square-foot area that could serve guests with a skylight and a ceiling fan with lights. The walls are covered with Nantucket beadboard, giving it both a coastal and country feel.

The kitchen combines wooden cabinets with stainless steel appliances. – SOJOURNER MEDIA

Form here, the house flows toward the rear of the home, arriving first is the 176-square-foot kitchen. It features two rows of wood cabinets, granite countertops, stainless steel appliances, a double wall electric oven, and a half-wall topped by opaque glass squares to help separate it from the living room. The sink is underneath a window, and the backsplash is tile. There is also a breakfast area. The flooring is ceramic tile, and there’s a door that opens to the deck on the right side of the home.

The family room has a wall of sliders leading to the deck. – SOJOURNER MEDIA

The 231-square-foot family room is adjacent to the kitchen and has hardwood flooring, a pellet stove, and a pair of sliders leading to the wide deck that runs along the right and the rear of the home. The deck has stairs leading to the landscaped backyard with a stone patio and an outbuilding.

The backyard deck is perfect for entertaining. – SOJOURNER MEDIA

Accessible from the family room is an 30-square-foot office and the first of two full baths.

The bath is 68 square feet and is rich with visual contrasts. It has pink paint on the upper walls and sand-toned ceramic tile on the walls, as a backsplash on the tub/shower combo, and on the floor. The single vanity has a white sink.

The remaining bedrooms — including the primary suite — are on the second floor, reached by using a stairwell brightened by its own skylight. The bedrooms, which all have hardwood floors, are arrayed off the shared hallway.

The spacious primary bedroom has its own private balcony. *– SOJOURNER MEDIA*

The primary suite has a 271-square-foot bedroom. There is a nice nook to put the bed in created by the internal shape of the external roof with its own window. Adding to its cache, there is a private balcony large enough for a morning coffee for two. Cooling is also provided by a ceiling fan with lighting.

The private bath has an emphasis on white: the vanity and its counter, tile flooring, and a shower insert behind an opaque glass door. The bathroom walls are a pale blue. The bedroom also has a walk-in closet.

One of the other second-floor bedrooms. – SOJOURNER MEDIA

The two other bedrooms are 137 square feet and 118 square feet. The larger has two windows along an exterior wall, while the smaller has a single window. As in the others, there is a ceiling fan with light.

Also on the second floor is a laundry room with twin skylights, space for full-size appliances, and a table for folding laundry.

The basement is unfinished. The home has central air and four oil heat zones, ensuring year-round comfort. The driveway accommodates up to eight cars.

Bill Thompson of Thompson Realty Group/Keller Williams Elite in Attleboro has the listing.

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