5 Beds
3 Baths
2,194 SqFt
5 Beds
3 Baths
2,194 SqFt
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Key Details
Property Type Single Family Home
Sub Type Single Family Residence
Listing Status Active
Purchase Type For Sale
Square Footage 2,194 sqft
Price per Sqft $296
Subdivision Stepp Jones Property
MLS Listing ID 4409778
Style Arts and Crafts,Bungalow,Cottage
Bedrooms 5
Full Baths 3
Abv Grd Liv Area 1,569
Year Built 1926
Lot Size 0.280 Acres
Acres 0.28
Property Sub-Type Single Family Residence
Property Description
The main house has two entrances that make the whole arrangement work. One door opens straight into the gallery on the ground floor, where customers browse the shelves and never have to know I'm home. The other is mine alone, leading up to where I actually live. Downstairs used to be laid out as two bedrooms, and the bones still show it: enough room for real shelving and a proper gallery wall, a cozy kitchen where I keep tea going for browsers, and a full-size, side-by-side washer/dryer tucked beside it so glaze rags and dish towels get handled in the same load. Two fireplaces down there, both converted to gas, make the space feel like somewhere to linger rather than pass through. Cold months turn out to be my better sales months because of it.
Upstairs is mine: two bedrooms, a full bath, and a kitchen nice enough that I actually cook most nights instead of ordering out. The living room fireplace runs on gas now, but I've thought about switching back to wood since it can do both. My favorite part is the wonderful breeze that blows in from the sleeping porch; they sure knew how to build them!
Down the path, the little building that started out as Jane Grey Syme's summer writing cottage earns its keep as a short-term rental. As a writer who focused heavily on nature, quiet reflection, and divine peace, this location would have been an ideal sanctuary for her. She maintained this double-lot layout to ensure she had a beautiful garden buffer of native mountain laurels, rhododendrons, and mature hardwoods, keeping her close to nature, which was a core theme of her spiritual writing. There's a full bath and a stacked washer-dryer tucked into the kitchen, so guests staying a few nights don't have to ask me for anything. It runs on its own septic system, separate from the city sewer that serves the main house and studio, though the tie-in to switch it over is already in place. Most of the year it's just a place for guests to stay; during festival season I list a "pottery experience" alongside the booking (a couple of hours at the wheel, priced separately), and that add-on carries me through the slower months.
Afternoons, if the shop's quiet, I walk to A Southern Cup Fine Teas, about four minutes down Greenville Highway. Flat Rock Wood Room is even closer, and their wood-fired Neapolitan is dinner more often than I'd admit. Neither trip requires getting in a car.
I take a booth at the Apple Festival every year, worth the short drive for all the foot traffic. Down the road, Boxwoods and I keep a standing trade going: a few of his home goods sit on my shelves, and he keeps a handful of my pieces on his. Weekends without a festival booked, I'm usually at the Blue Ridge Humane Society, sorting donations or walking a dog that needs the practice.
After Jane, the house remained in the same family from 1944 until the day I bought it. Having updated the wiring in 2011, then the plumbing, and eventually the studio, all buildings got new roofs in 2020. Everything here was already built to support exactly this kind of life; whoever's next just has to decide what to make of it.
Location
State NC
County Henderson
Zoning Mixed Use
Rooms
Guest Accommodations Exterior Not Connected,Guest House,Main Level,Room w/ Private Bath,Separate Entrance,Separate Kitchen Facilities,Separate Living Quarters,Separate Utilities
Primary Bedroom Level Main
Main Level Bedrooms 2
Interior
Interior Features Attic Stairs Pulldown, Pantry
Heating Baseboard, Electric, Natural Gas, Wall Furnace
Cooling Window Unit(s)
Flooring Vinyl, Wood
Fireplaces Type Family Room, Fire Pit, Gas, Gas Log, Gas Vented, Insert, Living Room, Primary Bedroom, Other - See Remarks
Fireplace true
Appliance Bar Fridge, Dryer, Electric Water Heater, Gas Range, Microwave, Refrigerator, Washer, Washer/Dryer
Laundry In Kitchen, Mud Room
Exterior
Exterior Feature Fire Pit
Fence Fenced, Full
Utilities Available Cable Available, Electricity Connected, Natural Gas, Wired Internet Available
Waterfront Description None
Roof Type Architectural Shingle
Street Surface Gravel,Paved
Porch Covered, Deck, Enclosed, Front Porch, Porch, Rear Porch, Screened
Garage false
Building
Lot Description Level
Dwelling Type Site Built
Foundation Crawl Space
Sewer Public Sewer, Septic Installed
Water City
Architectural Style Arts and Crafts, Bungalow, Cottage
Level or Stories Two
Structure Type Aluminum,Shingle/Shake,Wood
New Construction false
Schools
Elementary Schools Hillandale
Middle Schools Hendersonville
High Schools Hendersonville
Others
Senior Community false
Acceptable Financing Cash, Conventional, Exchange
Listing Terms Cash, Conventional, Exchange
Special Listing Condition None
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