3 Mi to Jacob's Pillow, Clearing in the Forest, Clean and New!
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Location
Car: Necessary
Fall color season in our forest is gorgeous! Drive briefly to state forests and public or private parks to hike; Appalachian trail entries nearby. Shakespeare & Co. and Berkshire Theater Festival , Barrington Stage, and Mahaiwe schedule offerings long after summer. Norman Rockwell museum, Berkshire Botanical Garden, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Museum, and Live theaters in Lenox, Gt. Barrington, Pittsfield and Lee are open through fall and winter, Norman Rockwell Museum, MassMOCA and Sterling and Francine Clark Art Museum are all open year 'round. Visit international restaurants, and fine seafood and specialized restaurants in Lee, Lenox, and Stockbridge. Dream Away Lodge is one of Becket's best kept secrets for fine food and music in casual, country atmosphere.
Cross-country and Alpine skiing available when the snow starts. Our 'hard packed' dirt roads are well-maintained and always passable soon after a snow. We're very near Rt. 20, Rt. 8 and the MassPike.
Owner info
Year Purchased: 2010
About the owner: We're both semi-retired, husband is a union stage hand, wife is a family lawyer. We live with a friendly dog and two cats, and have spent the past two years building this beautiful two-family project, living in one unit and renting the other. We built it to provide privacy to both units while being available to our renters as they may need. We're restoring the native plants that were cleared when building started.
Why the Owner Chose Sherwood Forest, Becket, MA, USA:
Becket is an old, rural community that also has a 50 year old forest development, Sherwood Forest, where we live and rent. This is not 'old growth' forest, so the forest floor is vital with ferns and wildflowers. We have three swales and creeks that flow around and across our place. They feed wetland plants and tiny frogs. We're developing meditation spots that seem to be naturally for the purpose.
The eclectic community ranging from 70's-era A-frames, and older cabins to carefully tended year-round homes is fairly described as, 'funky.' We had no interest in a big condo complex, and this isn't just our vacation home, we live here, too.
We built with goals to be, 'green' and as light on the land as year-round living can practically permit. The drinking water is filtered, but not chemically treated. After city life for decades, the cleanliness of Becket's air is a treasure.
The Unique Benefits at this House:
A mile from us in the development is Sherwood Shoppe, a convenience store and cafe that features fresh-baked muffins daily and excellent hot breakfasts. The country store a couple miles up the road makes hot breakfasts and specials, and lunches; 4 nights a week they make fine pizza, and deliver in the Not-Summer seasons .
There are creeks flowing under many of Sherwood Forest's roads, feeding the five lakes. The dirt roads are lightly traveled, making a great place to walk on the level or up and down hills. The beaches in walking distance are graveled or grassy. Take a chair and a book and relax and enjoy!
We take our dog along the roads of the Forest, (dog walkers all scoop poop), and enjoy the changing views of the lakes and streams.
The house is oriented so the rising sun shines on our balconies and setting sun shines on the rental unit's balconies.
As soon as the cool weather begins, the sun shines brightly on the south-facing window wall providing passive solar heat. It supplements the in-floor radiant heat that we don't need to turn on until late in the fall.
The breeze is almost constant, and the air is perceptibly cleaner than the city air we were accustomed to breathing before we came here to live.
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Great. rm. has TV & DVD in armoire; 2 ceiling fans, S. windows heat when sunny.
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Master Bath has walk-in double shower, Rt., jetted soaker tub, Left.
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Stairs in Gr. Rm. to loft, 2nd fl. bedrooms. Laundry, down hall from Kitchen.
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1 B.R. on loft; lower futon: double bed, upper:twin; chest, closet. Share bath
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Lower balcony, has gas grill, views woods, upper balcony off loft. Face west.
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Winter 2010. Owner-occ.: info., snow removal, help avail; yet very private.
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Welcome ! Private and easy to reach.
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Master suite, Queen bed, rocker-recliners,view woods and stone wall; priv. bath
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Half-bath, 1st fl. around corner from M. Bed.; private, front hall entry
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Loft overlooks grt. rm., two B.R., bath, lin. closet; futon, L. is double bed.
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2nd B.R. on loft: Double bed, chest, closet; share bath. Skylite opens.
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Din. area seats 8+ with leaf in table. S. window-wall heats space when sunny.
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Full kit., mobile ctr. island. Loft w. 2 B.Rs., bath. Double bed futon on loft
VRBO #362748
This listing was first published here in 2011.
Date last modified - Tuesday, September 20, 2016
