Now Offered · Gray Court, South Carolina
Hummingbird Manor
263 Allison Road · Western Laurens County · 29645
$3,495,000
Now Offered · Gray Court, South Carolina
An eight-foot brick wall, a set of private gates, a circular drive, and then everywhere else goes quiet. The grounds are what people tell you about first. A landscape designer worked with this family for close to two decades, and the master plan he drew, more than half a million dollars of it, went in over patient phases: drainage and irrigation, urns and fountains, specimen trees moved in at scale, stone columns, painted brick walls, and lighting that turns the whole place cinematic after dark.
At the centre of it is a saltwater pool built to resort standard, and beside it a pavilion built to hold a party. That is the part of the property that undoes people. It is the reason they stop walking and simply stand.
Solid red oak floors, recently refinished, run beneath premium lighting. A gas-log fireplace holds the living room. The main-level primary suite sits just to the left of the entry, quiet and private, with an air tub and a custom shower.
Continue on and the kitchen opens up, a serious room dressed in premium granite and custom cabinetry, anchored by a Viking commercial cooktop, a forty-eight-inch Sub-Zero, double Dacor ovens, and an island sized for a crowd. A butler's pantry and scullery lead through to the laundry, picking up a second Sub-Zero and a dual-zone wine refrigerator, the kind of back of house that makes the front of house look effortless.
The den is the room the family actually lives in, twenty-two by thirty feet, light on two sides, doors opening to the porch and the grounds beyond. A covered porch runs across the back and wraps to the side, where another lounge overlooks the pool, the fireplace and the pavilion. Upstairs waits a second primary suite with a media room, a walk-in closet built to a serious scale, and a spa bath with a soaking tub. Two more bedrooms share that floor. On the third, the newest addition: a bunk room and loft with a full bath, a hideout the grandchildren will claim as their own.
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Two thousand five hundred and thirty-one square feet on the first floor, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine on the second, and four hundred and fifty-five in the third-floor loft. Four thousand four hundred and twenty of gross living area, four thousand eight hundred and seventy-five finished in total. The detached pool house adds another one hundred and fifty-eight, and the porches, patio and outdoor kitchen add close to two thousand four hundred more outside the conditioned envelope.
Three and a half million in the middle of Laurens County makes some people blink. So here it is, plainly.
To build this from scratch today: seven private acres twenty minutes from Simpsonville runs about $350,000. The 4,875 finished square feet, at the $600 a foot this level of finish actually costs, is another $2,925,000. Recreating the master-planned grounds, the pool, the pavilion, the hardscape and the transplanted trees adds $500,000. That is roughly $3,780,000, and that is before the year and a half of construction and the fifteen years you would wait for the landscaping to grow in.
Or take the same money closer to town. Move these seven acres twenty minutes up the road into Simpsonville and you walk away with half the house, half the land, half the pool and grounds, and you hand back the privacy on top of it.
Or you own this one, finished, in thirty days.
The full property film walks the gates, the grounds and the water in one continuous piece.
Two minutes over the gates, the grounds and the water.
Twenty minutes to Simpsonville and the shopping. Five minutes to Lake Rabon, where two and a half miles of trail wrap the water. Fifteen to the Kawonu Golf Club, a private, golf-only club designed by Andrew Green. Forty to downtown Greenville, thirty to the airport. The property was featured in Talk Greenville, and it has only grown into itself since.
Drive times per the owner.
Shown by appointment, behind the gates. Tell us when suits and we will arrange it, usually the same week. If you are working with an agent, bring them along.
864.561.7942Disclosures, plat, survey, the landscape plan, the carriage house drawings, or a private walk-through at a time that suits you. We answer the same day.
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sellingwithdhg.comDamian Hall Group, an affiliate of Christie's International Real Estate. Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed. Square footage and acreage approximate. Improvements and landscape investment per current owner.