NORTH YARMOUTH – A true contemporary farmhouse is a rarity, and a great find.

Such a home is suited to buyers who appreciate the lifestyle-enhancing convenience of owning a very low-maintenance property, and also seek the life-affirming natural beauty of a pastoral setting.

Here is a perfect example: an immaculate, 2004-built home that is in the countryside (the southern border of these 4.6 acres abuts a Christmas tree farm) but is also minutes-handy to Yarmouth village and I-295. Local schools are excellent; in fact, Greely High School is ranked No. 7 in Maine.

Consider this a superb family home, as it has been for the single-owner sellers. The 11 rooms include four good-sized bedrooms. The master suite, which occupies an entire wing, has an office/crafts room, lit by a Palladian window, that also makes a perfect nursery.

There’s also a cool, bamboo-floored office on the main level, which is sunbeam-bright, spacious and open beneath 9-foot ceilings, and highlighted by a gorgeous custom kitchen with wall oven, maple cabinetry, honed granite surfaces including an 8-foot island with overhang for dining, and a large breakfast nook set by a bay window. Behind French doors, the chair-railed dining room is more family/gathering-friendly than it is formal; a gas fireplace with marble surround makes the living room all the more comfortable.

The grounds are special, indeed. A lagoon-shaped inground pool, with gazebo, is enclosed by wide patios. Beyond the lawn are a little brook crossed by two footbridges, and a spring-fed pond whose little waterfall gives the property its name, Granite Falls Farm. The three-section outbuilding is multi-use: at present, cider press, honey making, and workshop.    

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Amenities include a security system and a whole-house generator.

The 3,112-square-foot home at 236 Mountfort Road, North Yarmouth, is listed  at $599,900 by Patti Foden of Keller Williams Realty. Taxes were $6,877 in 2015.

For more information or to arrange a private showing, please contact Patti at 553-1353, 807-4294 or at pfoden@kw.com.

The Home of the Week is produced by the Marketing Department of the Maine Sunday Telegram. Photos by Keith Andrews. Send suggestions for feature homes to jrolfe@pressherald.com.


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