Newark, DE 19711,557 UPPER PIKE CREEK RD
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Newark, DE 19711,557 UPPER PIKE CREEK RD
Newark, DE 19711,557 UPPER PIKE CREEK RD
Newark, DE 19711,557 UPPER PIKE CREEK RD
Newark, DE 19711,557 UPPER PIKE CREEK RD

$412,000

Est. payment /mo

$450,000

8.4%
Est.Price: ?

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557 UPPER PIKE CREEK RD Newark, DE 19711

5 Beds

4 Baths

3,950 SqFt

SOLD DATE : 10/31/2017

Key Details

Sold Price $412,000

Property Type Single Family Home

Sub Type Detached

Listing Status Sold

Purchase Type For Sale

Square Footage 3,950 sqft

Price per Sqft $104

Subdivision Pike Creek

MLS Listing ID 1000326609

Sold Date 10/31/17

Style Colonial

Bedrooms 5

Full Baths 3

Half Baths 1

HOA Y/N N

Abv Grd Liv Area 3,950

Originating Board TREND

Year Built 1817

Annual Tax Amount $4,899

Tax Year 2016

Lot Size 2.340 Acres

Acres 2.34

Lot Dimensions 0X0

Property Description

What a rare opportunity to own a piece of Delaware history in a place of unequaled beauty! The Abel Jeanes Mansion is located on 2 acres and is listed on the Nat'l Registry of Historic Places in DE. This outstanding estate is nestled among now defunct limestone quarries known as the Eastburn -Jeanes Lime Kiln District. Several accounts state that the home was built in 1768, but it's not clear when Abel Jeanes actually purchased or first occupied the mansion. This home is expansive with its large kitchen, grand living room, formal dining room, library, 5 bedrooms, 3 1/2 baths, 9' ceilings, hardwood floors, curved plaster window frames in the original section, 6 fireplaces (one is operable), 2 staircases, & partial basement with outside access. The home's most recent addition appears to have been built in the 1970s--enlarging the kitchen, adding a 2nd floor master suite & sitting room, master bedroom with French doors leading to a deck, upstairs laundry, 4-piece master bath, & walk-in closet. There are 3 addl. bedrooms & a full bath on the 2nd floor--a 5th bedroom, sitting room, & full bath on the 3rd fl. The home has central air, and the boiler was replaced in 2009. All sections of the roof have been replaced within the last 8 yrs, & a new water softener was installed in 2010. The electric was updated to 200 amp service w/circuit breakers, and the home was connected to public sewer service in 2002. New carpets were installed on the 2nd/3rd floors in 2016. The property includes an original wagon shed (now garage & workshop) and a spring house. The garage's roof was replaced in 2008, and a new cedar shake roof was installed on the spring house in 2010. According to Francis Allyn Cooch, in his book, "Newark, Delaware, and It's Environs", (Newark, DE, The Press of Kells, 1936), "The Mansion is of brick and stone, and the wagon-shed of wood has a stone foundation but all of the other buildings on this farm are of native limestone ... " Cooch describes the mansion as, "substantially constructed, it's heavy stone and brick walls being stuccoed over." Further he summarizes the property quite eloquently saying, "the quarries are overgrown with bushes and large trees; the kilns are out of repair, but, like the great barn, the mansion and other buildings still stand as monuments to the soundness of their original construction ... Nature has restored the beauty of the surroundings, and Pike Creek gently murmurs over the rifts as it has done for untold years."

Location

State DE

County New Castle

Area Newark/Glasgow (30905)

Zoning H

Rooms

Other Rooms Living Room, Dining Room, Primary Bedroom, Bedroom 2, Bedroom 3, Bedroom 5, Kitchen, Library, Bedroom 1, Other, Attic

Basement Partial, Unfinished, Outside Entrance

Interior

Interior Features Primary Bath(s), Kitchen - Island, Butlers Pantry, Skylight(s), Ceiling Fan(s), Water Treat System, Exposed Beams, Stall Shower, Kitchen - Eat-In

Hot Water Electric

Heating Heat Pump - Electric BackUp, Hot Water, Forced Air, Radiant, Zoned

Cooling Central A/C

Flooring Wood, Fully Carpeted, Tile/Brick

Fireplaces Type Brick, Stone, Non-Functioning

Equipment Cooktop, Oven - Wall, Oven - Double, Oven - Self Cleaning, Dishwasher, Disposal

Fireplace N

Appliance Cooktop, Oven - Wall, Oven - Double, Oven - Self Cleaning, Dishwasher, Disposal

Heat Source Oil

Laundry Upper Floor

Exterior

Exterior Feature Deck(s), Patio(s)

Parking Features Garage Door Opener, Oversized

Garage Spaces 5.0

Utilities Available Cable TV

Water Access N

Roof Type Pitched,Shingle,Wood

Accessibility None

Porch Deck(s), Patio(s)

Total Parking Spaces 5

Garage Y

Building

Lot Description Irregular, Sloping, Trees/Wooded, Front Yard, Rear Yard, SideYard(s)

Story 3+

Foundation Stone

Sewer Public Sewer

Water Well

Architectural Style Colonial

Level or Stories 3+

Additional Building Above Grade

Structure Type Cathedral Ceilings,9'+ Ceilings

New Construction N

Schools

School District Christina

Others

Senior Community No

Tax ID 08-030.00-021

Ownership Fee Simple

Security Features Security System

Acceptable Financing Conventional, VA, FHA 203(b)

Listing Terms Conventional, VA, FHA 203(b)

Financing Conventional,VA,FHA 203(b)

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Bought with Bert Green • RE/MAX Associates-Wilmington

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