Joseph Lawrence Homestead

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Posted 4.29.16 // 10:35am

Total number of acres: 

11-20

Land is best suited for:

Apple/Fruit, Berries, Flowers, Grains, Greenhouse, Hay/Forage, Herbs, Row Crops, Vegetables, Woodlot

Possible tenure arrangements:

Standard sale

Water sources: 

Infrastructure needed

Electricity access: 

Yes

Infrastructure: 

Barns & sheds
Space for heated hoophouse
Parking space for farmers’ vehicles
Living or meeting space

Infrastructure details:

Built in 1771, addition in 1849. Family Room/Breezeway, updated Kitchen w/ radiant heat & all the conveniences leads to entertaining-size Dining Room. Formal Living Room & Library in front of house. Full Bath with Laundry. Upstairs: 3 Bedrooms, 2 Half Baths (one in Master BR w/ shower and sink) & large attic over the Kitchen. Authentic post & beam construction, 6 fireplaces (2 with beehive ovens; not all are used), wide pine boards. Gardens, pergola, fenced-in side yard, 1-car garage, attached wood shed could accommodate small farm animals. House is on town water. There is a well under the bathroom (which used to be the well house) that could be re-tapped for irrigation purposes.

Conservation easements:

Chapter 61A

Additional details:

A quintessential New England farm setting - hay fields, stone walls, woods & an abundance of land. 17 acres in total with 4.4 tillable acres are on prime farmland soils: Scituate fine sandy loam.The land has been farmland as far as the records go back. The hay field has been in hay for at least forty years and before that it was corn. Both the hayfield and woodlot have been in agriculture for decades.

The woodland soils are also in the Scituate series which the US Dept. of Agriculture characterizes as follows:
DRAINAGE AND SATURATED HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY: Moderately well drained. Saturated hydraulic conductivity is moderately high or high in the loamy surface and subsoil and moderately low or moderately high in the dense sandy substratum.

USE AND VEGETATION: Mostly forested. Some areas are used for hay, pasture, and silage corn. Common tree species in woodlands are northern red, white, and scarlet oak, gray, black, and yellow birch, white ash, red maple, elm, eastern white pine, and eastern hemlock.

Asking price $545,000

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