‘Green’ house in Norfolk - News - Milford Daily News
108 Main St., Norfolk
DETAILS
Living area: units of 2,028 to 2,336 square feet
Property size: 9-acre site for 40 homes
List price: $609,900 and upwards
Boydes Crossing is Norfolks first sustainable community of high-quality and well-insulated homes with exceptional energy efficient features. It uses less than 30 percent of the energy consumed by standard newly built homes. Its a beautiful tree-lined, nine-acre site with stunning stonewalls and landscape located on Main Street, just a quick walk to the town center and the commuter rail station to Boston. Each home has its own private patio and planting area and theres also a community garden, an attractive gazebo with a center fireplace, green spaces, bicycle racks and ponds. Forty houses will be built over one to two years. Fifteen units have been started. The address can be located on GPS.
Last weekend, Boydes Crossing in Norfolk had the first open house of its green community that features smart, sustainable high-performance technologies. Its the first such community in Norfolk. To orient those interested, the property is located a short walk from the train station and the center of town, near the two traffic circles.
Each of the 40 individual homes will be constructed to be maintenance free and with solar energy so that it uses less than 30 percent of the energy consumed by standard newly built homes. To save on expense, each house will have HardiPlank fiber cement siding on the exterior, a 30-year architectural roof, Aztek decking, vinyl railings and fencing and drought-resistant plantings.
The builders are on their first of three phases; the first includes 15 homes that are all underway. There will be two more phases of building in the next year or two to complete the 40 houses.
The nine-acre community welcomes you with a Pergola introducing Boydes Crossing. Theres a pond, a stunning stonewall on both sides of the road and a sidewalk on one side and there will be a community vegetable garden. Just past the first row of homes is an attractive community gazebo with double fireplace in the center. Most of the houses will be situated next to each other in something of an elongated circle with a central village green. All of the community vegetation will be watered by a well, so theres no sewer fee involved.
There are five types of homes, ranging from 2,028 to 2,336 square feet. All the homes have a garage with electric door or doors, for one or two cars on the ground floor or a one-car detached garage. Theres a paver driveway outside the garages.
The Peachtree has a master bedroom and one or two additional bedrooms. With one additional bedroom, it is being marketed for $609,900 and with two additional bedrooms it is being marketed for $619,900. The Peachtree we saw, however, has been upgraded from two additional bedrooms so that it would cost more than $619,900.
The homes are being marketed by Danielle Rochefort, a Realtor for Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Page Realty in Medfield.
All of the houses lower walls are clapboards and all the upper walls are shingles, with all of them being made of HardiPlank and fiber cement boards. Every house will have a farmers porch on front and all the bigger houses will also have a farmers porch on the back.
Stonebridge Homes in Easton, which has built residential communities in Massachusetts for more than 20 years, is building these homes.
Walk across the front farmers porch through the front door of the Peachtree. The door has one divided upper window, a side window and a window above. It could have an optional window bench. There are two front windows, the first floor ceiling is nine feet high and the floor is pre-engineered hardwood. In some houses, it is pre-finished hardwood.
An upgrade has changed things so that on one side theres a large spot for the TV facing the living room. On the other side a little further down is a natural gas fireplace with closets on either end.
In the kitchen, theres a granite island and granite counters with a tile backsplash and a big sink with a double window above. All the drawers are quiet-close, full extension drawers with a couple of pullout drawers. The four cabinets on top have glass windows. And in this house, theres a stainless steel gas stove with a vent that goes outside.
All the other appliances are also stainless steel, unless you choose a different covering. Theres a sliding door (with a window above) that opens out to a small deck of bluestone that goes down to the yard and a patio of pavers. The whole kitchen looks very fresh and appealing.
The first-floor laundry has two folding doors over it. And theres a half-bath with a pedestal sink and beadboard wainscoting.
The master bedroom has a single and a double window and pre-engineered hardwood flooring. Theres a walk-in closet and the master bathroom has a shower with a gorgeous tiled wall, a tiled floor and a rain head. Theres one sink set in a granite counter.
On the second floor, theres a loft area that looks down on the first floor. A full bathroom has one sink with a granite counter, a bathtub with a rain head shower and a porcelain tile floor. Theres a linen closet just outside the bathroom.
The two bedrooms each have a slightly different shape. Both have double windows on the back wall and wall-to-wall carpeting, unless upgraded.
Theres a finished basement with a spacious carpeted room. The two-car garage has windows at the top of the garage doors and a side entrance that gives extra space to the side.
The house is incredibly well insulated, with R-51 in the roof, R-24 in the walls and 10 electrical panels on the roof that generate at least 50 percent of the heating. Heat, hot water, air conditioning and electricity should cost $100 to $110 a month, depending on customer use.
The condo fee is $125 a month on this unit and is slightly higher on the bigger units. It goes to master insurance, central septic for the whole nine-acre community, road maintenance, snow removal, landscaping of the common area and master lighting.
On purchasing the house this year, the state gives you $1,000 refund and the federal government gives you a 30 percent tax credit on the solar system, amounting to a total of $4,600 to $4,800.Government action on this may change next year, altering the amount involved.
Ten of the 40 homes will be sold as affordable housing.
Its about a 45-minute train ride or a 50-minute drive from the home into Boston.
For a private showing, call Realtor Danielle Rochefort at 508-954-7690.
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