Home of Milton Highlands Sheep
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Three bedroom two full bathroom home has spacious rooms*, tin ceilings, hand painted kitchen tile, French doors, fireplace, 2 decks, pine plank flooring and thermal storage heat. Located in a very private country setting just at the Yarmouth town limits in the Meadowfields School District, it is - for most - a 4 minute walk to the regional hospital. Yarmouth has ferries to Bar Harbor and Portland and an airport with connections to Portland and Halifax. View on Map. Used successfully as a small hobby farm (sheep, chickens, ducks) until 2008; there are three outbuildings, two ponds, river frontage, stone walls, and 5 pagewire fenced acres.
Exterior painted with Olympic Stain in 2007, new roof with laminated top of the line shingles in 2006; in 2005, completely rewired with a new entrance, the oil furnace removed and electric thermal storage heat installed on NS Power ETS (time of day electricity savings) program. Maximum monthly energy cost has been less than $300 in the coldest winter months.
We planned to live here for ever and each year carefully invested in improvements meant to last our lifetime. Work remaining is minor and most if not all can be grant funded. Ask for our improvements and "to do" lists.
This home is listed in Canada's Register of Historic Places, just waiting for new owners who prefer old homes who have been thinking "there must be more to life than this ... "
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