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9 days ago

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This is in a beautiful area, but part of the town has a great school district and part has a very weak one.......according to one listing I read, it seems to go to the "good one" but I do question if that is correct.

Anyway, enjoy the listing.

https://www.homes.com/property/102-brandywine-creek-rd-coatesville-pa/vktg35c78ws3y/

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Kswl
9 days ago
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Thanks for posting that house! I can see the four phases of development in the photos.

The setting is just beautiful, but I am no longer seduced by such as having lived in a country property know how much maintenance is involved!

I would commit a crime for that mud room / utility wing. Not kidding!
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Allison0704
9 days ago
It had me at Pic #1. Admitted stone addict.
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nicole___
9 days ago
I LOVE the country setting! Great off street parking. Looks like a great place to visit....I need enclosed garage space. Lovely....lovely setting.....aaahhh......
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dedtired
9 days ago
So much charm! I love the setting. So often those historic homes sit close to very busy roads, since back in the day being close to the road was a good thing but then the roads evolved into busy streets, even highways.

Love!
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bpath
9 days ago
I always love a Pennsylvania farmhouse. In fact, I fell in love with my current house at first sight, and learned about 15 years later from the original owner that the model name was ”Pennsylvania Farmhouse.”
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deegw
9 days ago
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Is this a rough commute to Philadelphia because the price seems surprisingly inexpensive? The houses I am looking at around Raleigh NC for 900K don't hold a candle to this. It's very charming.

The range placement has me scratching my head.
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Jennifer Hogan
9 days ago
Not sure what school district is the good one vs weak one, but you can look up the school district for any address in the state of PA here: https://munstats.pa.gov/Public/FindMunicipality.aspx

It is showing that this address is in the UNIONVILLE-CHADDS FORD School District.
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Jennifer Hogan
9 days ago
Commute shouldn't be too bad - hour drive or take the train - pretty sure this is a stop on the Harrisburg- Philadelphia line. (Used to take the Train from Phily to Lancaster/Elizabethtown when I flew in from CA to visit family).
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maire_cate
8 days ago
Thanks for sharing - that's a beautiful property. I love all of it - the setting, the field stone combined with the red doors and window trim, the mud room tile, the wood beams and floors, the unadorned windows. Even the bedrooms have a charming simplicity.
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salonva
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8 days ago
Re the school district--- I'm not an expert but Coatesville is usually either Coatesville School District or Downingtown School District. The latter is excellent, and the former is really weak. I did see it say Unionville Chadds Ford but I thought that couldn't be right. Anyway that school district is also very very highly regarded. I'm shocked a the price then. I assumed it was priced so low because it was in the not good district.

Now I have no clue. why it's priced so low.

Interesting house anyway
Jennifer Hogan
8 days ago
When I was little I would spend weekends with my oldest brother and his wife when they lived in West Chester and then moved to Downingtown. I was 6 when they got married and 10 when she gave birth to my first live doll. Jeanie would take my sister and I shopping and we always stopped at Dane Décor. When I graduated from college she gave me some of their furniture as starter furniture. I still have the one bedroom set. Often wish I wouldn't have gotten rid of the sofa.
OutsidePlaying
8 days ago
Nice property. As a country dweller, yes it is a lot of maintenance, but worthwhile in so many ways. Love that big copper sink and like kswl, the mudroom.
jill302
8 days ago
Thanks for sharing, I really enjoyed seeing this home. I think the owners have done a good job adding to and updating the home over the years. That said, I would not want a home without a garage and the steep staircase gives me palpitations, although I understand they are the norm in PA. Beautiful land too.

While I have not been to this specific town, we have visited nearby and loved the area. PA is on our short list, should we ever decide to move from So Cal.
jojoco
8 days ago
I agree, salonva, I also figured it was in Coatsville sd based on the price.
Jennifer Hogan
8 days ago
jill302 - moved from PA to San Diego, lived there for 30 years and moved back. I put 4000 miles on my car last year, everything is within a couple miles of my house. Can get all my errands run on Saturday morning. Costs are so much lower and the people in my home town are wonderful. I chose to live in Lebanon because my family all lives here, but if I didn't have family here and just wanted a really nice town to live in I would have picked Lititz. Wonderful small town feeling, close to Lancaster and not far from Philly.

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