Just listed: my favorite house in the county. It was built by artist/builder Ken Arthur in 1978, on 3.22 acres about 3 miles this side of Malabar Farm on Hastings-Newville Road. Ken sold it in 2001, and it's offered by the current owners at $235,000. The house is timber framed with reclaimed, hand-hewn posts and beams. High R-value insulated. Exterior is board and batten cedar. A large barn with loft provides studio/workshop space. Ken's art is based on "found" objects and this house reflects that...an eco-friendly house ... a combination of energy-conserving design, and reclaimed energy in its construction.When Ken built his latest house and moved, he of course took most of his collections that filled the house, outbuildings, and landscape including the boulder collection that once lined the driveway. But vestiges of the collection remain, in structural elements and adornments of found objects and recycled building parts from the past...like the clay chimney pots, Victorian gingerbread brackets, implement parts hanging in trees, and stones of all kinds. You'll see what I mean when you take the video tour...it's not going to be up until tomorrow at the earliest, but I'll post a link when it's ready.
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