Keedysville MD Real Estate & Homes for Sale

Welcome to Cannon Ridge on Farragut Drive. This Spacious 4 bedrooms up top for your dream sanctuary2.5 well-appointed bathrooms (2 full on the second level for privacy, ½ on the main for convenience) and an Open-concept kitchen that flows effortlessly into a cozy family room â perfect for gatherings. Elegance meets function with a dining room right off the kitchen area A chic sitting room greets you at the entranceâbecause first impressions count! Main floor laundry simplifies choresâlocated off the 2-car garage. Plus, an unfinished basement ready to become whatever you can imagine, complete with a roughed-in bathroom. And that's not all... This home boasts a sizable, flat backyard just waiting to be turned into your own slice of paradiseâideal for family fun and growth! Take advantage of the opportunity to explore each corner of this fabulous home and visualize your future.

Presenting the "Wyand Brick House & Farm," per the Maryland Historical Trust, also known as "Seven Gates Farm." The value of this unusual, beautiful property is in the history, the many outbuildings, & extensive gardens. If you're looking for the "Secret Garden" of your lifetime, this it! At the edge of Keedysville, large trees shade the grounds & gardens of extensive hedges, plantings, & boxwoods, w/garden paths, quiet spaces, small formal areas, & accessory buildings. 2 original outbuildings, a wash house & a log smokehouse are behind. There is a cistern w/a pulley hanging from its roof. The 4-bay house is brick-encased log. Chimneys (likely non-functional) rise inside the gable ends, & a bay window allows natural light. A covered porch stretches across the front façade & a transom window sits above the front door, likely dating from the 1840's. A two-story wing w/double porches is on the west side of the house. Inside, it is simple, without pretension. The gardens are a different story. Everywhere you go outside on this property there are different species of plants: Flowering, evergreen, deciduous, heirloom, you name it. Every season is beautiful on this little homestead! Once part of an 80 acre farm, it belonged to Jacob Hess, builder/owner of the town's mill, which dominated the community into the 20th century. Early deeds show it was part of original land grants called "Resurvey of Fellfoot Enlarged & Hills & Dales & The Vineyard." In 1833, Hess heirs sold the farm to George Geeting, Sr. Twenty years later, Geetingâs heirs sold to Simon Wyand. Generations of Wyands divided & sold off land, leaving the current farmstead of .67acre of land. In 1984, it was sold to Dean Johnson & James Cramer, & out of the Wyand familyâs control for the first time in 131 years. Dean & Cramer were editors of Country Garden & of Country Home, and contributed many articles. They brought their creativity to restoring the neglected house & its grounds. Their efforts resulted in 2 books, "Seasons at Seven Gates Farm" & "Window Boxes Indoors & Out." The house originally had two rooms, side by side, on the first floor. The front door opens into one original room & the bay on the left expands the room. A simple mantel decorates a fireplace, now closed w/a wooden cover & beyond are stairs to the 2nd floor. Woodwork is simply molded w/plain corner blocks. Interior doors have four panels. First floor ceilings were stripped of plaster to reveal joists above & the laths that held plaster were hand split. Floors have been stripped & left bare of finish and true to the period. The other original 1st floor room was split into two. In one room a shallow fireplace has a simple mantel & a brick hearth. In the other room is a full bathroom. Behind the front rooms & 2steps down, is the kitchen wing w/a large cooking fireplace that burns with gas logs. Log walls have been exposed here & there are narrow back stairs. There is also a door to the lower porch & another doorway opens to a pantry. Upstairs, 3 bedrooms are in the main block of the house, w/a large workroom above the kitchen. The workroom is frame construction above the log kitchen below & rudimentary, w/only 2of 5 openings having the same moldings; all others are different. As stated before, the gardens are the property's glory. Large, flat stepping-stones had been buried for decades & were dug up & reset. The wash house was restored & furnished w/a table & chairs set before a large fireplace. Specimen plants & heirloom varieties fill garden beds. An English cold frame shelters fall crops. The log smokehouse w/a steep hip roof had been restored & topped w/an old finial. New structures were added as well: A small barn with vertical siding, a small hexagonal dovecote housed domesticated pigeons, and a glass greenhouse. All in disrepair. The above was edited & pared down from an article- Herald-Mail Sunday, November 12, 2000- as the 133rd in the series. This property is being sold as-is, where is.

The Land: 15.85 ACRES. The Lot is Zoned residential/preservation. Verified ability to subdivide 3 additional lots w/ each at 40,000 sqft. The remainder of the land left is then roughly over 12 acres after the subdivision of the 3 mentioned lots. Subdivision would require normal Washington County guidelines -----Metal Building: About 8,845 sqft w/ concrete floor & heating installed through concrete floor. Metal building has 400 amp + electric service.-----The Barn: Concrete block silo. The condition of the barn is "rustic" ---- Existing home: is restorable or can be demolished to build upon to save impact fees. The possibilities of this property are endless. The amount of uses that are already approved in this zoning really do make for a fantastic home based business or homestead!

The Land: 15.85 ACRES. The Lot is Zoned residential/preservation. Verified ability to subdivide 3 additional lots w/ each at 40,000 sqft. The remainder of the land left is then roughly over 12 acres after the subdivision of the 3 mentioned lots. Subdivision would require normal Washington County guidelines -----Metal Building: About 8,845 sqft w/ concrete floor & heating installed through concrete floor. Metal building has 400 amp + electric service.-----The Barn: Concrete block silo. The condition of the barn is "rustic" ---- Existing home: is restorable or can be demolished to build upon to save impact fees. The possibilities of this property are endless. The amount of uses that are already approved in this zoning really do make for a fantastic home based business or homestead!