What a special location! This quintessential 4 bedroom, 2 full and 2 half bath split-level home is approx. 3258 sq ft. The block dead-ends into the park. The view from your front windows is Penn Wynne Park with its walking trails, tennis courts, baseball field, and picnic area. You are within walking distance to Penn Wynne Elementary School, Kaisermann YMCA, Penn Wynne Library, pizza store, shopping, and just a short drive to Whole Foods, Giant, Bed Bath & Beyond, and more.
The large front yard boasts well-maintained mature trees and plantings (see Bartlett invoice for work performed in 2019). The walkway to the retro white door with black diamond windows is lined with azaleas and other plantings. The white-tiled front hallway has two large coat closets.
The main level includes an open living room and dining room layout to the right and a kitchen and breakfast room to the left rear. The step-down living room has a full bay of windows with a large, tiled ledge for your plant collection, or add a few pillows for sitting and reading or enjoying the view of the large front lawn with its mature Cedar and Japanese Maples and the view across the street Penn Wynne Park and tennis courts. The living room has a vaulted ceiling for an open airy feel and leads into the formal dining room with large built-in for your dinnerware, table linens, and built-in bar. All the original oak hardwood flooring was recently sanded and refinished. The modern eat-in kitchen has a gas range top, double ovens, refrigerator, dishwasher, and don’t miss the instant-hot faucet on the stainless-steel sink. The breakfast nook has a secret pass-through window/door to the lower-level family room for easy entertaining, and a door to the rear patio and yard. There is a cement patio for backyard grilling (the existing built-in grill is not connected). The backyard is large and fairly level for entertaining or play equipment. A brand new beautiful tall wood fence providing privacy was just installed by the neighbor.
The upper level has a large main bedroom with a wall of mirrored built-in clothes cupboards, TV shelf, large walk-in closet, and an en-suite bathroom complete with tiled shower (newer tiled shower floor appears to indicate original pan has been replaced), in-wall linen closet, and medicine cabinet over vanity with new light fixture. The upper level includes 3 additional bedrooms, with a nice closet in each, an updated tiled, hall bath with tub-shower (complete with rain shower head), and a hall linen closet. (The 4th bedroom is currently set up as a home office with a built-in desk and shelving.)
The lower level includes a laundry room with new composite flooring, washer and gas dryer venting to the outside and a door to the driveway, and 2 closets (one with a new 2021 hot water heater and one for storage of cleaning materials, vacuum, etc.); a recently renovated half bath; a large family room with brand new carpeting, a gas fireplace (not used recently) with remote, a wall of windows viewing the back patio and yard, and a door to access the backyard from the driveway side; an additional large storage closet in the lower-level hallway as well as a large tar paper lined crawl space provides additional storage. Best of all run your business out of your house. The lower level includes an approved professional office with a separate entrance, waiting room, and half bath. The office is large and has a generous built-in desk with built-in filing cabinets, loads of bookshelves, a secretary desk area, and is soundproofed. It also houses a large built-in cedar closet.
The roof was installed in 2016 and comes with a warranty, a new hot water heater was recently installed, and the house has central heating and cooling with a newer HVAC condenser. The windows are original and are all fully functional. They currently have their storm windows in(all the windows and storms were recently professionally cleaned. The screens are stored in the lower-level crawl space.