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1840 – Front Royal, VA

Posted on OHD: 8/8/19. Last OHD Update: 7/25/22.
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National Register Property

5211 Winchester Rd, Front Royal, VA 22630

HAILING PRESERVATIONISTS! HISTORIC COUNTRY ESTATE WITH 325 ACRES AND BEAUTIFUL BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAIN VIEWS. Convenient to Front Royal and Winchester, I-66 and I-81. Near golf courses and the Shenandoah River. Enjoy the splendor that is Erin, an 1840s manor house with a grand columned two-story portico and a spectacular two-story open foyer featuring a rounded staircase. On the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register of Historic Places, Erin, its buildings and surrounding farm land are protected by conservation and historic easements through the Virginia Outdoors Foundation and the Virginia Board of Historic Resources. This Classical Revival-style home with Greek Revival embellishments is both historically and architecturally significant. A paneled wood entry door with a transom fanlight, magnificent mantles, full-length wall niches, pine floors and rear double porches are among its features. Has fireplaces but they are not in use. In addition to the manor house, the estate also has numerous 19th-century outbuildings, including a schoolhouse, law office, smokehouse and a stone kitchen plus a sizeable early 20th century bank barn. Erin offers some development potential. It can be divided into 3 parcels with the possibility of building 2 more homes. Rolling farmland for horses, cattle and other livestock. Currently in land use with fields leased for cattle farming. This property is sold as-is. Available with house and 10 acres for $399, 900 or the whole property for $1.5 million. Shown by appointment.
4 Bed · 2 Bath · 3,226 Sq Ft
OHD Notes
10 acres at $399,900 OR 325 acres at $1,500,000.
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