Wilmington, VT | 197 Lake Raponda Road

This impressive 6-bedroom, 7-bath farm-style timber frame home, built by Davis Frame and featured on their website as “The Great White Barn,” sits on 3.51 acres just minutes from the Hermitage Club, Mount Snow, downtown Wilmington, lakes, hiking, golf, and VAST trails. Formerly known by its previous owners as “La Maison de Pommes” (House of Apples) for its old apple orchard setting, the home was designed for entertaining and guest stays. Fully furnished. The main level offers a magnificent great room, custom kitchen with large center island, stainless appliances, and walk-in pantry, plus a primary bedroom and additional bedroom. Upstairs, a large open loft serves as a relaxing retreat with flexible game-room or office space and another bedroom, featuring a one-of-a-kind slide to the main floor. Lower-level guest quarters can be separated by a barn door and include a kitchen/dining area, two family rooms, and three bedrooms with polished concrete floors. Every bedroom has a private bath. Outdoor living includes a spacious screened porch, private area with a Hot Spring Pulse 7-person hot tub, two decks with gas grill hookups, and a natural stone patio with an integrated fire pit. The backyard highlight is the beautiful apple orchard and blueberry bushes, along with peach trees and lilacs. This highly energy-efficient home features full geothermal heating and cooling, dual air exchangers, radiant flooring, and a masonry heater with pizza oven. Move right in and enjoy!

This vintage renovated waterfront home is being offered for the second time in 40 years. Lake Raponda allows motorized craft, with primarily private beach front, and a small local boat launch and public beach. It is located conveniently down from the Mt Snow Ski Resort, on a quiet road, affording year round enjoyment and solitude. This home has been lovingly maintained, updated, and expanded by the current owners, and features a lodge style quite unique in the area which offers warm charm and Vermont rustic styling perfect for a retreat. Inside you are treated to vaulted ceilings in the main living room with floor to ceiling stone fireplace. There are freshly painted walls and exposed woodwork throughout, a country kitchen with gas stove and basin vintage sink, great light from the many windows and updated lighting, a tremendous great room addition perfect for entertaining with wood stove for ambiance, two main floor suites including a large primary, an upstairs guest suite, a spacious sleeping loft, great storage and closet spaces, a den/tv room ideal as an office or overflow sleeping, and lake views from every bedroom. Outside you'll find a large stone patio with hot tub which leads down to the extensive perennial landscaping and path to the water. There is a boathouse at the lake for lake storage, a large dock, swim platform, and level lawn space for fun in the sun. The home has a detached garage great for off season boat storage or whatever you may need. Updated septic!