Some Washington-area residents may assume Calvert County, Md., is far too distant for commuting to the District, but residents of the Lyons Creek Hundred community in Dunkirk are just 25 minutes from the city and within 30 minutes of Old Town Alexandria and Annapolis, Md.
While Lyons Creek residents easily can visit these cities for work, shopping and cultural activities, their community feels as if it is a world away. The Twin Shields Golf Club, a public course at the entrance of the development, adds a prime recreational amenity, while each home offers a refuge from the outside world.
The home at 2061 N. Plantation Drive, on the market for $1,500,000, rests on an estate of 5.5 acres. Built in 2004, this custom-designed home has approximately 8,050 finished square feet of living space along with an unfinished walk-out basement with 5,215 square feet. The private estate backs to trees.
The home’s professionally landscaped grounds include an in-ground gunite swimming pool with an electric cover, stamped-concrete sidewalks and porches, and a four-car garage. The contemporary-style stucco home includes a front porch with arches and columns and a Charleston-style back porch that runs the length of the home and overlooks the swimming pool.
The home includes five bedrooms, with both a master suite and a guest suite on the main level, five full baths, and two half baths, both of which are on the main level. The main level has an open floor plan with rooms flooded with natural light.
Guests can be welcomed on the front porch or inside in the two-story foyer, which has marble flooring, a dramatic curving staircase and columns. From the foyer, guests can look straight through the home to the floor-to-ceiling windows at the back of the house. The windows overlook the pool.
Just off the foyer is a two-story living room with a fireplace, art niches, built-in cabinets and bookshelves, and hardwood flooring. Nearby is the formal dining room, which has hardwood flooring and wainscoting.
Guests are likely to gather in the open kitchen and breakfast area or the adjacent family room, a sunken octagonal space with high ceilings and columns. The family room includes walls of floor-to-ceiling windows and a stacked-stone fireplace. The breakfast area also is surrounded by windows.
The kitchen, which has hardwood flooring, includes upgraded appliances, granite counters, custom-designed wood cabinets and a center island with pendant lighting and seating. Coffee lovers will enjoy the built-in espresso machine, wine lovers will appreciate the wine cooler, and chefs will take pleasure in the six-burner propane stove, the convection oven and the microwave. The kitchen also has a breakfast bar with seating and a walk-in pantry.
The main level also has a private office with an expansive window and a separate laundry room with an exterior entrance.
The first-floor master suite includes a separate sitting area with an arched entrance, columns and floor-to-ceiling windows, plus a spacious bedroom and a bar area with a wine cooler. The luxurious master bath includes marble flooring, custom-designed cabinets with granite counters, a walk-in shower, a whirlpool tub set under a window, and a separate room with a commode and pocket doors. The suite also includes a walk-in custom-designed closet with built-in dressers.
The first-floor guest suite has a private entrance and a private full bath.
Upstairs are an oversized recreation room that overlooks the foyer and main level, 12-foot ceilings throughout the level and two staircases to the main level. Each of three large bedrooms on this level has a private full bath.
This home also has four zones of propane heating, tankless water heaters and an irrigation system.
For more information on this Dunkirk estate, contact Realtor Gail Nyman of Re/Max United at 301/802-6542 or visit www.nymanrealestate.com.
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