House of the Week: $1.8 million for a Pape Village house on a giant lot
House of the Week: $1.8 million for a Pape Village house on a giant lot
Address: 4 O’Connor Drive
Neighbourhood: Pape Village
Agent: Anna Oliver, Sotheby’s International Realty Canada, Brokerage
Price: $1,799,000
The Place: A stately five-bedroom house overlooking the Don Valley.
The History: According to the owners, there’s some confusion about the exact age of the place: a survey that shows the original footprint dates to 1906, but a deed they’ve found says the house was built in 1926. Either way, the leaded glass windows and matchstick wood floors are original to the home. Luckily, not everything is that old—the kitchen and roof were redone in 2013.
Big Selling Point: The 493-foot-long lot is huge by any standard. To put it in perspective, you could fit three Olympic-sized pools end to end in that space. That makes for a heck of a spot for a backyard barbecue—or a football game, for that matter.
Possible Deal Breaker: The glass bricks in the second bathroom let light into the room, but they’re not exactly the most current style choice.
By the Numbers:
• $1,799,000
• $5979.23 in taxes (2015)
• 2,715 square feet
• 1050-square-foot basement
• 493-foot-long lot
• 5 bedrooms
• 4 parking spaces
• 3 bathrooms
• 3 storeys
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- The house, located on a tree-lined street, is on a lot that's almost 500 feet long. The roof and copper eaves were redone in 2013.
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- The living room has a gas fireplace. The leaded glass windows are original.
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- The family room. The house's matchstick wood flooring looks great, but beware of creaks.
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- The dining room has more of those leaded windows.
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- The kitchen is the one part of the interior that doesn't look at least a little bit antique. It was redone in 2013, and it comes with a Bertazzoni gas range and a Sub-Zero fridge.
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- This sunny den is on the second floor of the house. (The buyer should definitely invest in some curtains to keep the glare off the TV.)
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- There are three bedrooms on the second floor. This is one of them.
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- Another second-floor bedroom.
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- And the last second-floor bedroom.
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- The main second-floor bathroom probably hasn't been redecorated in a while, but that's nothing a few thousand dollars couldn't fix.
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- There are two more bedrooms on the third floor. This one is being used as an office.
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- Also on the third floor is the master bedroom. The ceiling is sloped, but not so much that it seems as though it would pose a danger to anyone's forehead.
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- The third-floor bathroom has a weirdly angled cabinet, to take advantage of limited space.
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- The basement is finished.
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- There's a sizeable patio in the backyard.
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- The grass just keeps going and going, all the way to the edge of the Don Valley Ravine. (And the Don Valley Parkway, of course.)
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- That's a lot of green.
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• 2,715 square feet
• 1050-square-foot basement
• 493-foot-long lot
• 5 bedrooms
• 4 parking spaces
• 3 bathrooms
• 3 storeys
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Stunning home, hopefully it’s not knocked down to build some new white stone monstrosity. Given the lot size it’s going to have a lot of appeal to someone looking to build a 5,000+sq/f home.
Did the article mention that the house has electric baseboard heating. I’m sure a house that old isn’t insulated
George Chung I’m sorry but they are radiant hot water baseboards that run off a gas boiler. It’s called a Slant Fin 30 look it up.
Electric heat. oh-oh. $$$
“Slant Fin 30” is a High Efficiency, radiant HOT WATER baseboard heating system. The gas bill on heating, hot water and cooking combined is $180/mo Lots of Savings..
Hot water baseboard heating sounds interesting. Does it really warm a room? It’s so rare for large houses NOT to have forced air…
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