Drive east out of Port Hawkesbury on highway 4, the Other Road to St Peters, and you'll pass a blink and you'll miss it red dirt road. You almost certainly will miss it, even if you don't blink. I still do, and I know it's there, and I'm looking out for it. It's the sort of road that really only gets used by the people who live on it, and most of those are at the far end, closer to the much fancier road connecting Port Hawkesbury to St Peters. If you drive a short distance down that road, you'll see the for sale signs. That's my property. But it could easily be yours!
What's that? Shutup and get on with it? Okay, okay!!
This is a piece of property my wife and I picked up about twenty years ago when we were living in Ontario. We always intended to build an off grid, cordwood house on it. But we had kids, in school, and couldn't make the break. We came out for holidays, and did what we could. Last year, we made the move permanent, and bought a fixer upper house closer to Sydney. However, life intervened. We were older than we had been, had sustained back injuries and arthritis, and really weren't in shape to get our house finished. And we were living in a community that has its problems, but which we found we liked more than we'd expected to. So, it's kind of a bitter sweet thingt, but our land is up for sale.
At this point, we have:
A driveway
A house site, with 30 x 22 concrete beam on grade foundation, aligned for passive solar
Two inground water tanks, totalling 2600 gallons in place, for rainwater collection.
A (permitted) greywater infiltration bed. We planned on using composting toilets, so the only wastewater was greywater.
A 12 x 16 permitted utility shed.
A garden area, with fruit trees, perennial herbs and native plants and grasses.
A lot of trees, mostly spruce and fir, but a smattering of birch and maple. Lots of mushrooms, including chanterelle, boletes, black trumpets.
Rear of the property, 740 feet. is formed by a creek.
Oh, yes and Engineer drawn, provincially approved, building plans for a cordwood house.
Lots of privacy, no immediate neighbours, peace and quiet. The town of Port Hawkesbury is fifteen minutes away, with all services.
Listing is here:
https://nsar.paragonrels.com/CCR/collablink/5be4ec36-0641-486a-9733-384cda77a5bb/listings/results?&forMlsId=NSAR&sid=LHMCkZnnt0Q
Feel free to message or post any questions you have!
thanks
Billy
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