For $850,000 in R.I., a gingerbread-style house with a heart-shaped tub – Buying, Spring House Hunt

Megan Johnson — Globe correspondent

May possibly 2, 2022 4:41 pm

It’s not the variety of gingerbread residence you acquire a bite out of, but we ensure you’ll want to take a look within.

Located on just under 4 acres, the three-mattress, two-tub residence at 780 Shermantown Street is a customized gingerbread household located in the Saunderstown village of North Kingstown. The 1,304-square-foot dwelling, which was designed in 1950, options a good deal of quirky and unanticipated details, ranging from a telephone booth elevator to a coronary heart-shaped bathtub.

“The gentleman who owned it created it himself. He was an eccentric genius,” said John Kidd of Blackstone Ocean Properties, who has the listing. “He crafted it by hand.”

.—John E. Kidd Jr.

Step inside of the customized double doors into the dwelling area, in which there is a cozy hearth. Continue on into the kitchen, or transfer into the initial-floor bed room. The very first floor is also residence to the laundry room, exactly where the furnace and very hot h2o heater are found. A spiral staircase normally takes you to the next flooring, which homes the key bedroom. The 2nd flooring lavatory does not have a rest room, but it does have a heart-shaped bathtub that was never ever concluded and is perched future to a massive window facing the wilderness.

To get to the third ground, action into the picket phone booth elevator. Whilst the telephone no lengthier works, the elevator does. On the 3rd floor, there’s a bed room, as well as a sitting place and a catwalk. From that walkway, you’ll discover a path to the home’s entrance balcony — a lovely spot to choose in the all-natural surroundings.