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A Rare Find in Hillsborough

On the Eno River

In "The Historic District"

225 West Margaret Lane

Hillsborough, NC 27278

Tel: 919-644-1364

This unique property is ideally situated. It juxtaposes "country living" with "in-town amenities" two blocks away.

This home is located a block and a half from Hillsborough's "Old Courthouse." Restaurants and shops are a leisurely stroll away. A fine public library is around the corner. The new Weaver St. Market will locate 300 yards down the street.

You can also walk out the back door and feel like you're living in the country. The .42 acre lot extends to the middle of the Eno river. There's a "swimming hole" and a beautiful view of the shallows where the river bends downstream. Within the Historic District, only a dozen homes adjoin the Eno.

The property has an organic vegetable garden, containing a 40 crown asparagus bed. You will also enjoy an orchard/grove -- with 35 fruit and nut trees -- including apples, plums, peaches, pears, pluot, aprium, paw-paw, cherries, pecans, Carpathian walnuts and chestnuts. There's a black raspberry patch and laden blueberry bushes.

Flower beds contain daffodils, irises, daylilies, roses, gladiola and hyacinth, as well as tea roses and climbing roses.

The original 700 sq. ft. "bungalow" was solidly built in 1937. A 1700 sq. ft. annex was built in 1996. Recently retired Hillsborough builder Winkey Roberts served as the general contractor.

This home contains a "great room," a parlor, three bedrooms, a kitchen, dining area, library (with built-in bookcase), two and a half baths, an approximately 650 square foot walk-out basement (the basement is wired, heated and air-conditioned, naturally lit by 7 windows and contains roughed-in plumbing for an additional bathroom), and a master bedroom "annex" that can be used as a nursery or home office.

The Margaret Lane home also has a spacious walk-in closet, an approximately 280 square foot back deck overlooking the Eno River, a spectacular river-view balcony off the third-story master bedroom, a front porch, oak floors, a carport and a poured concrete driveway. The walk-in attic sports a new floor and provides approximately 700 square feet of accessible storage. A new air-conditioning unit was installed in April, 2002.

We offer this riverside home for $269,900.00.

To arrange a visit, please contact alanarchibald@mindspring.com

Or phone (919) 644-1364

(All measurements on this website are approximate.)

Useful links:

The Alliance for Historic Hillsborough: http://www.historichillsborough.org/

Town of Hillsborough: http://www.ci.hillsborough.nc.us/

Cameron Park Elementary School: http://www.orange.k12.nc.us/cp/default.htm

Hillsborough Year-Round School:
http://www.orange.k12.nc.us/calendar/current/HES%20Year%20Round.pdf

C.W. Stanford Middle School: http://www.orange.k12.nc.us/cws/default.htm

Orange High School: http://ohsw3.ohs.orange.k12.nc.us/ohs1.htm

Emerson Waldorf School: http://www.emersonwaldorf.org/