Cornwall Update: The West Cornwall Neighborhood

Happy New Year!  It has indeed been a good year in West Cornwall.  Our foot traffic increased over Cornwall Days with visitors to our parks by the Covered Bridge, the Souterrain Gallery under the Wish House, Todd Piker’s Pottery Store and CJ Burke’s new Hair Works beauty salon.  The Wandering Moose continues to be the meeting place for residents and tourists.

Last year we reported one sale in West Cornwall.  This year we can report three. All of Cornwall had 33 sales; 6 were land, 27 were houses.  In all, 3 of those sales were foreclosures. 

The headline for West Cornwall is that the pink house has sold!  Jim Herity and Libby Mitchell are Big Pink LLC and purchased the property from the Landmark USA Trust for $63,000 on January 2^nd.  They also paid the real estate taxes dating back to January 2007 which totaled $35,958.20.  Libby has advised me that their immediate plans are to repaint and fix up the exterior so that it will once again be a beautiful West Cornwall landmark. With their business partner, Amy Johnson, their ultimate goal is to create a West Cornwall Center for the Arts.

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266 River Road was a lovely building lot complete with a gravel driveway installed. This lot has sold three times since subdivision and this time the owners sadly lost it to foreclosure.  I found a buyer who loves this 11.17 acres of undeveloped land and its privacy and convenience to the river.  I sold it last February for $135,000. 

The third sale in our neighborhood was 9 Railroad Street which had been a restaurant.  It sold for $120,000.  This commercial property has an apartment on the second floor and commercial space on the first level.  

All three sales here offered wonderful market value and indicate a turn around in sentiment from the doldrums we saw only 2 years back.  It is exciting to watch the market improve and we wish all the endeavors success.

I have relisted 1 Tarradiddle Lane at a reduced price of $375,000.  This 19^th century farmhouse is in move-in condition.  On the first floor there is a handicap accessible bedroom with bath en suite.  The eat-in kitchen also houses the laundry.  The living room features a wood burning fireplace. Upstairs there is the master bedroom which has both a sleeping porch and a bath en suite.  Two additional bedrooms and a hall bathroom are on the 2^nd floor.  A marvelous studio in the backyard has a half bath and a fireplace and sits atop a 2 car garage.  Across the street behind the studio there is a completely rebuilt and heated green house.

Just a little further down River Road, I have listed 2 lots totaling 14.87 acres for a total price of $199,000.  The front 3 acres are level pasture with a view of the river.  Then the land gently slopes up into woodland.  An old road on the right side leads partway up to another level area.  Selective tree cutting could produce a view from that vantage point.

Currently there are 22 houses for sale ranging in price from $172,500 to the Cornwall Castle at $8,850,000. 

Of the 33 sales in 2013 the sales price range was from $25,000 to $1,580,000.  The $25,000 sale was mine!  It was a 2 bedroom cottage on Windy Way, part of the association known as Dark Entry down in Cornwall Bridge.

We hope you’ll stop by to visit or call with any real estate questions or referrals you may have. We now number 4 agents.  Shirley Zimmerman and Heidi Kearns joined us in 2013.  We are proud to have Heidi as a Cornwall selectman.

Cordially yours,

Priscilla Pavel

Cornwall office: Richard Meehan, Shirley Zimmerman & Heidi Kearns