Homestead Opportunity on 8-Acres in Rockwell NC ~ with SRE!

Who among us hasn't fantasized about living surrounded by rolling hills, away from the bustle and buzz of city and neighbors, with gardens, greenhouses, chickens...and maybe even a pond of our own! Make that dream a reality at 190 Dutch Farm Road in the sweet town of Rockwell, North Carolina. Let Realtor Greg Rapp with Salisbury Real Estate LLC show you this fantastic homesteader opportunity on over 8 acres offering privacy, space, and so much!

Tucked away up a long drive through beautifully wooded property, you'll find this one-owner home that the sellers poured their heart into. Walk up flagstone steps through the front door. A warm and gracious open-floorplan space greets you: a large open living and dining greatroom with cast iron wood stove, flagstone hearth, and beautiful oak floors set cheerfully on the diagonal then leads through to a spacious and bright, open kitchen with new quartz countertops along counters and huge work island. The kitchen features a dual-fuel range (gas cooktop and electric oven) and a plethora of windows overlooking gardens and rear deck.

Off the kitchen, the owners built a massive sunroom with flagstone flooring and walls of windows with a screened porch at one end overlooking the grassy knolls that wind down to the pond. A doorway leads to a large wrap around deck overlooking gardens, woods, and pond. The elevated deck runs the length of the 24' sunroom AND the screen porch, with a beautiful circular feature at the east end. Al fresco dining anyone? The owners grew large potted citrus trees along the deck and overwintered them in the sunroom. The owners were garden intensive people and perennials and herbs abound in the gardens that can nearly all be observed from this fabulous deck.

Your new home at 190 Dutch Farm Road offers a second winter sunroom that steps down off the kitchen. When the trees shed their leaves, this small sunroom is bathed in sunlight and gas logs here make this room a cozy respite.  While the entire home is heated and cooled with an energy-efficient geothermal HVAC, the owner devised an ingenious fan system that takes hot air from the living room wood stove and pipes it to this sunny space! An outdoor patio and attached solarium are just beyond the lower sunroom pleasant room.

A private hallway leads to the home's two bedrooms, single bath, and a sewing /laundry room that could do double-duty as an office or craft room.

When you step outside, the real excitement begins. Where to begin? The property has so many wonderful outbuildings all nestled here and that it's tough to know where to start! 

Do a slow 360° and take in the potting shed, a small greenhouse, the 24 x 40 garage, and a two story tiki hut down by the pond ~ complete with a tiny working kitchen with stove, refrigerator, and tiny counters. The owners have spent many an hour entertaining guests on steamy North Carolina summer afternoons with swims and sunbathing in the pond followed by cookouts at the 'hut'. A stand-alone bathroom outbuilding is nearby. A tractor shed (complete with tractor and implements that convey with the sale) is nestled in the woods. A chicken coop and a wood-storage structure round out the property. Gardens? Well, of course! The sellers are Master Gardeners with Rowan County and the property offers two irrigation systems for the gardens.

Under the home, the entire basement/crawl area is encapsulated against moisture.  But wait . . . here ~ you'll find a climate-controlled wine cellar to go with those mature grape vines that grow in the gardens!

The property extends beyond what you see in the cleared areas with lawn, gardens, pond and outbuildings - on to deep woods with native paw-paw trees and more. And old survey (updated in 1992) says the lower portion of the acreage is in a flood plain, however the seller says it only occasionally floods. NCfloodmaps.com and Rowan County GIS show no flood zone.

The Town of Rockwell, North Carolina is centrally located just 10-miles from historic Salisbury's museums, restaurants, unique shopping, and nightlife . . . and 40-miles from Charlotte's metro-area.  Nearby attractions include High Rock Lake, the North Carolina Transportation Museum, and Blue Waters Pool. Tiger World Endangered Wildlife Preserve, a nonprofit animal conservation and educational center dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation, and preservation of exotic animals, is located in Rockwell. The Old Stone House, a circa 1760s plantation home restored to its period features and furniture, is in the nearby Town of Granite Quarry. The Old Stone House, a branch of the Rowan County Museum network, hosts popular events throughout the year where volunteers in period costumes tell the history of each room in the house, cook traditional food over open fires, and where there is period music, weaving, hunting and black powder gun demos, candle making and herbs, spices and historical books offered. You won't want to miss the annual Christmas Celebration here. More nearby fun includes Morgan Ridge Vineyards with its restaurant, event venue, and rolling grounds, the historic Town of Gold Hill that steps right out of its original gold-mining era practically untouched . . . and race fans will appreciate the proximity to the Charlotte Motor Speedway, just minutes down the highway. 

If you pictured yourself living on rolling acreage, a small farmette, or a country get-away ~ with privacy and greenery abounding, your dream is about to come true. Reach out today to Realtor® Greg Rapp with Salisbury Real Estate LLC for your exclusive showing of this special property: 704.213.6846 makes it happen!

190 Dutch Farm Road
Rockwell, NC 28138-8710
CMLS#3922796
$499,999

Greg Rapp 
Salisbury Real Estate LLC 
704 213 6846 Mobile 
GregRappRealtor@gmail.com 
www.realestatesalisbury.net 

Privacy and History in this Circa 1820/1902 Farmstead with 47+ Acres | For Sale with Greg Rapp

Picture this: A private circa 1820/1902 Victorian farmstead on rolling and wooded 47+ acres in the countryside of central North Carolina, lush with native plants, and with its own stream. Picture horses grazing, and chickens pecking in the yard. Picture fall evenings on your wrap-around veranda, and lazy late summer afternoons in the hammock with your favorite read. Picture soaring ceilings, vintage fireplaces, and wide plank floors. Picture a sunroom with an abundance of plants and books for winter wiling-away the hours. Yes! The Barger Farm, with its uncomplicated luxury, is what you're envisioning...and now it can be yours! Greg Rapp with Wallace Realty can make this vision come to life!

Featured in 'The Architecture of Rowan County - A Catalog and History of Surviving 18th, 19th, and Early 20th Century Structures (Davyd Foard Hood), The Barger Farm at 4575 Brown Road in Mt. Ulla, North Carolina brings so much to the table. The Barger Farm was historically a multi-acre farm, a tract of land originally owned by Lord Granville (The Granville District essentially encompassed the northern half of North Carolina, circa 1729), whose home has stood the test of time.

A walk through the landscape surround the home and the rolling acreage reveals a beautiful series of surprises that connect the whole — a virtual encyclopedia of North Carolina native plants, wildlife corridors that restore natural migration paths, and nesting areas make the landscape dance with true visual rhythm.

This 2-story, 3,075 square-foot Victorian is set almost perfectly on a north/south axis with the front door facing south. It is sited below the crest of a hill overlooking a patch of woods with a small stream running at the bottom of the hill. Brown Road originally traversed in front of the house, where an enormous pair of pin oaks flanks the front yard and would welcome visitors coming up the drive. In the 1930s, the road was re-oriented and now home's rear elevation faces the road, albeit at 300 feet of setback.

The exterior of the home is lapped-board siding, much of it heart pine. The interior arrangement of rooms: twin parlors on either side of a wide center hall, two ells added at the rear, and two rooms on the second floor, are typical of the local farm houses of the period. But the L-shaped wrap-around porch and the three steep gables with decorative oak shingles on the front elevation are more unusual features in this farming community and give the house its special character. While the attached kitchen ell, wide beadboard porch ceilings, and large windowpanes indicate the house was built near the turn of the 20th century, 4575 Brown Road is deceptive; it has more character hidden within its walls than is evident at first glance.

The current structure is a much changed and expanded version of an earlier house. The original house, circa 1820, offered two rooms on each floor and an attic (utilized as sleeping quarters) with one or possibly two exterior chimneys (only one chimney remains). Large field boulders set into the earth form the foundation of the older structure. The sills are hand-hewn timbers. Along the sills are stamped Roman numerals which correspond to the numerals on the hand-hewn joists. In the older part of the house, there are no sawn sills or joists, and the timbers are joined with pegs.

A massive expansion in 1902 included the unusual 3 peaked dormers and expansive wrap-around porch. The foundation of this part of the house is brick piers. A rear upstairs bedroom and bathroom addition was added in the 1990s.

Many original mantles, woodwork, and floors remain, some with original hand-grained faux finish. The fireplace in the east room is the original 1820 fireplace. Several rooms feature original shiplap walls. At least one room features the original 1800s flooring, and others have the original flooring from the 1902 upgrade. A pretty bay window in front parlor accentuates the Victorian character.

The main floor offers two front parlors (one may be utilized as a fourth bedroom) flanking a center hall, dining room, kitchen, and main bath. A pretty sunroom flooded with natural daylight overlooks the gardens. The kitchen, featuring a handsome platter shelf and gleaming wood floors, exits via a small porch to the yard. The Wolf stove/range conveys. The upper story is home to three bedrooms (one added in the 1990s) and another full bath. The many original details, such as hand-grained doors and mantel pieces, create an organic and warm environment.

The property has approximately 10 acres of open field; the balance is wooded. Pretty bricked paths lead through gardens around the home. A small greenhouse sits in a fenced potager garden, still boasting tomatoes and basil but overgrown with passion flowers and petite scarlet morning glories. Pollinators enjoy a large stand of zinnia.

A short walk beneath trees, down the hill and around the bend, hidden by a windbreak of tall trees, reveals a large, ground-mounted solar panel array -providing electricity enough for 9 or 10 months of the year.  The stream and headwaters are protected by a Three Rivers Land Trust Conservation Easement, assuring the quiet enjoyment of the property and clean drinking water for future generations.

This sprawling property of fields and woods is the perfect opportunity for a gentle-person's farm, a bed & breakfast, horse farm - the possibilities are almost endless. The acreage can be leased for farming. 'Gentleman’s farms' are a way for environmentally conscious individuals with a strong respect for the land to explore sustainable methods of farming. Focusing on natural and organic maintenance practices and rebuilding natural habitats for native wildlife restores the land and creates an area of preservation to be enjoyed by future generations.  While the original barns and smoke house are long gone, a vintage corn crib originating from another property is across the driveway.

The Barger Farm on Brown Road is just 17 miles from the City of Salisbury, North Carolina, where you'll find unique shops and restaurants, two microbreweries, and art galleries, museums, and the Rowan Public Library. About a 20 minute drive, the rolling countryside of Mt. Ulla's scenery includes many multi-acre properties. At 4575 Brown Road, you'll have privacy, but you're not isolated. The surrounding woods create a VERY private oasis.

An all-brick two-car garage sits across the driveway from the home. Even the garage is more than meets the eye! To the right, a laundry room is at the first doorway; the second doorway is garden shed. To the left, a workshop sits behind the garage segment.

4575 Brown Road has been well-maintained, with a freshly painted exterior in 2019. IMPORTANT TO NOTE: The property is protected by a Three Rivers Land Trust Conservation Easement and cannot be subdivided.

Look at that brick drive!

So . . . put your boots on, grab your North Carolina Native Plants Guide, and call Greg Rapp / Wallace Realty to have an up-close-and-personal look at this marvelous farmstead: 704.213.6846

...and by this fall, you will be swinging in that hammock on that beautiful wrap-around veranda...you know you will!

4575 Brown Road
Mt Ulla NC 28125
CMLS #3651645
$575,000







Greg Rapp 
Wallace Realty Co. 
704 213 6846 Mobile 
704 636 2021 Office 
www.realestatesalisbury.net 




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Circa 1938 Farmette for Sale ~ 6+ Acres ~ A Restoration Project!

When opportunity knocks, sometimes you need to be wearing overalls and roll up your sleeves! Here is your chance to return this 6.48 acre spread back into the gentleman's farm it once was. And the best part? This property is priced almost $50K under tax value!!!

This circa 1938, 1,316 s.f. home and farmette at 2110 Grubb Ferry Road in Salisbury NC is loaded with potential. There are a number of usable outbuildings, and a nice grape arbor. Yes, the house needs work, for sure a new roof, and the HVAC needs to be replaced (the heat is inoperable / AC may work) but the home has good bones. The well works!

The front porch with glassed-in with storm windows and a rear sunroom add to the livability of the home. Three bedrooms include a larger owner's suite with its own second full bath. A small portion of the back yard is fence-in . . . ideal for pets!

This home, with some elbow grease, could be a show place. Come take a look and make it your 21st century homestead. "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."

Don't let this chance pass you by! Call Realtor® Greg Rapp with Wallace Realty: 704.213.6846 to make this farmette YOURS! SOLD AS IS!

Note: While the tax card states that this property is 7.55 acres, the calculated area per Rowan County GIS is 6.48 acres; no survey on file.



2110 Grubb Ferry Road
Salisbury NC 28144
CMLS:#3503310
$87,500






Greg Rapp 
Wallace Realty Co. 
704 213 6846 Mobile 
704 636 2021 Office 
www.realestatesalisbury.net