211 Marsh St, Belmont, MA 02478

This lovely home is wonderfully sited on a wooded lot at the top of Belmont Hill. A 2003 addition bumped out and opened up the house, creating elegant flow and great feng shui. This unusual dwelling lends the feeling of a cozy house in the woods, yet is open and modern with great attention to period detail. It is graced with a double-wide, front-to-back living room with a huge fireplace and French doors that open to a gorgeous bluestone patio; a formal, open dining room; a “cook’s kitchen” that opens up through the family room addition, out another set of French doors, and onto the bluestone patio; a second floor master suite with huge walk-in closet and laundry, a master bath with double sinks, glass shower and soaking tub; two additional bedrooms and another tub bath on the second floor; and a fourth bedroom with skylights, a shower bath with “tunnel light” (wrong word), and a bright, private study with huge skylights and a wall of built-in bookshelves on the third floor. The basement is largely finished and has a media room which doubles as another study, an exercise room, and lots of storage. Much thought and expense has gone into the beautifully landscaped, almost-half-acre grounds. From the gorgeous bluestone patio bordered by an exquisite weeping cherry tree and moss-covered, half-buried boulders excavated from the property – to the hewn granite bench created from an ancient door stoop and more boulders – to the “English Cottage Garden” flanked by a boxwood hedge and rare, evergreen Southern Magnolia with its heady, waxy summer blooms – to the dwarf weeping cypress tree (check this), redbud trees, red-twig dogwoods, hydrangeas, azaleas, wild cacophony of rhododendrons and mountain laurels -- to the subtle ground lighting and uplighting; this property is a gift that delights year-round. Rounded out with an attached garage for two cars and additional brick paver parking for two cars, this exceptional offering is in close proximity to the Habitat Audubon Sanctuary, Lone Tree Hill and Rock Meadow trails and affords an easy commute to Boston and access to Route 2 and points West. Children attend the Winn Brook Elementary School.