The 7,300-sq.-foot home at 3535 Meadow Highway is on the market place for $4.3 million. (Pictures courtesy of CVRMLS)
A single of the pricier household listings to strike the neighborhood true estate market place so significantly this 12 months has come in the variety of a 38-acre estate with drinking water sights in close proximity to Sandston.
Mentioned May well 26 for $4.3 million, the Eberhard Pond estate consists of a 7,300-square-foot home and the 9-acre namesake pond. The assets is at 3535 Meadow Highway on the north side of Interstate 64 in japanese Henrico County.
Elaine Eberly with Allegiance Real Estate has the listing. The vendor is Anthony Owen, an Altria retiree who Eberly said is shifting out of point out.
“With some reservations,” Eberly extra. “He enjoys it there so a lot.”
The dwelling overlooks Eberhard Pond, which can make up 9 acres of the 38-acre house.
Owen experienced the residence crafted in 2004, when he purchased the land for $230,000, Henrico assets documents demonstrate. The county has assessed the enhanced assets at $1 million.
Located about a mile east of the I-295 interchange, the home is anchored by Eberhard Pond, a stocked fishing pond fashioned by a spillway that Eberly reported was created in the late 1800s.
The pond is named for Robert Psalter Eberhard, who Eberly claimed not only crafted the spillway but also served as stationmaster for a close by coach station, was a postmaster common and region store proprietor, and was proprietor-operator of a grist mill, pieces of which are visible on the house.
“It has a large amount of heritage to it,” Eberly reported.
The house was created and oriented to choose benefit of the h2o sights.
In addition to fishing and boating on the pond, the residence consists of possibilities for hunting, hiking and looking at wildlife, she said. The mainly wooded property features a taking pictures assortment, when the grounds closer to the home include a gazebo, patios, verandas and landscaping.
Elaine Eberly
Developed by neighborhood architect Glenn German and created by Avent Homes, the a few-degree property totals 13,400 square ft of area, 7,300 of those people regarded as living house. It has five bedrooms and 4½ loos and is oriented so that each individual area has a view of the pond, Eberly said.
“They’ve spared no expenditure in obtaining the very best artists there,” she claimed, noting function by area stonemason Brent Leftwhich. “They’ve just long gone to each size to make positive that this is a residence that they would delight in, and they have for a quantity of years.”
The residence also features two stone fireplaces, two laundry rooms, a bar room with billiards desk, two- and a few-automobile garages, and a taller garage for RV or boat storage.
The 3-level dwelling was crafted by Avent Properties and created by local architect Glenn German.
Eberly mentioned she’s acquired some first inquiries since listing the residence just prior to Memorial Day weekend.
The listing’s price tag tag is one particular of the most important found in the Richmond region so much this calendar year. In April, a 12,500-sq.-foot dwelling in Windsor on the James in western Henrico hit the market for $4.2 million.
Eberly reported the asking price for Eberhard Pond was identified based mostly on conversations with the architect and builder on what it would charge to assemble the home these days, as nicely as other market and assets things to consider.
A gazebo and other amenities increase to the house’s grounds
“Just striving to find out what the price of the dwelling was from being able to replicate it, in addition to the pond, and it also has quite a few other developing sites that have water watch,” she claimed. “It’s comparable to some other qualities in Virginia and up and down the East Coast that have some of these same features.”
Eberly, who was referred to Owen by a different client, explained she designs to sector the listing with an emphasis on executives relocating to Richmond. She explained the residence could also charm as an activities location.
“With all of the new organizations in the Richmond metropolitan area, I’m imagining that some govt might just fall in really like with this,” she explained. “Something out of the hustle and bustle of the metropolis where they’ve received their individual private oasis that is just truly a gem.
“It would also make a excellent corporate getaway, a marriage venue,” she reported. “It has so quite a few distinct prospects.”