Discover your perfect escape with this charming seasonal cottage offering deeded beach rights to the pristine and serene Highland Lake. Just steps from the water, this rare gem is ready to enjoy from day one. Inside, a spacious living and dining area welcomes you with a cozy pellet stove and electric fireplace , while a clever sleeping loft — accessed by a pull-down staircase — adds a touch of whimsy. Outside, the beautifully landscaped yard offers distinct spaces for play, relaxation, and meditation, complete with a large sandbox and generous storage shed. Swim, fish, and kayak right from your deeded beach, or take a peaceful walk through the woods to DAR State Forest and Upper Highland Lake. Recent upgrades include a deep well and newer roof— so the big work is already done. Motor boats are not allowed creating a true paradise for nature lovers and those seeking a quiet lakeside retreat. Many furnishings convey with the sale.
A rare opportunity to own an amazing home as well as a family compound or an Air-N-B with endless options! Vacation or year round home with great outdoor activities to build memories and skills! Learning how to swim(safely, as no motor boats allowed!) or to row a boat or just letting the kids go sailing, paddle boarding, or wind surfing on a lake that you cannot get lost on!... or just lazing around on the raft on an endless hot summer day.... these are just some of the many wonderful features of this special lake for the next family to discover and embrace. Only 20 minutes to Northampton and within an hour to many major prep schools such as Williston, NMH, Deerfield Academy, or Bement to name a few as well as many world class colleges...Smith, Mt Holyoke, Amherst, UMass, and Williams. In the winter there is fantastic skiing right out the back door...Mt Snow, Okemo, and Killington that you can just drive out to after breakfast and be home for dinner! Or the local mountains, Berkshire East is only 20 minutes away or Bosquet, 40 minutes, both with night skiing! For the traveler Bradley International Airport is 1 plus hour away and Logan/Boston is only 2 hours. The lake also abuts the 1400 acre DAR state forest with many miles of safe running and mountain biking trails. The home is on a park-like setting with fantastic water views from every room and plenty of room for everyone to stretch their legs. On the inside...4BR and 3BA (lovely master suite with a private 3 season porch) a 500+s/f entertainment room on the second floor, and a private garden level studio apartment. Outside there are 2.5 acres of rolling lawn with fruit trees, blueberry bushes, and beautiful wooded trails and over 300' of private water frontage with a gentle and inviting wide open beach under foot to enter the lake for a swim! A fabulous 2+ car oversized attached garage with service door back yard to the back yard for lawn equipment and accessories. The driveway has a Goshen stone wall that frames a magnificent garden of flowers that attracts butterflies, hummingbirds, and pollinators all summer long! It is like waking up in a postcard every day and in the Autumn...WOW!!!!!!!!! These are just some of the many reasons why everyone falls in love with the "Goshen Ocean." Then there are the three charming furnished seasonal cottages which can be occupied during the summer months for additional income or shared with family and or friends. It is bittersweet to leave but the time has come....
Nine wooded acres in Goshen, and a 1983 timber-frame house built into them with rare care — its frame raised from timber cut on the land. Exposed beams overhead, wood and tile underfoot, a south wall of glass that follows the light all day. Complete seclusion, yet ten minutes to Williamsburg, twenty-five to Northampton, an easy drive to the Berkshires and Tanglewood.The open main level holds an eat-in kitchen, a living room with wood-stove insert, a sunroom lined with built-ins and warmed by its own hearth, a half bath, a screened porch and deck. Above, two bedrooms with built-in dressers, a third fireplace, and a skylit bath with double vanity and tiled dual-head shower. Higher still, by its own stair, a hand-built octagonal turret open to 360° views.A seamless ~740 SF wing adds a private entrance, family room/studio, full bath, and sleeping loft. Outside: a spring-fed pond, pollinator beds, stone grotto, screened gazebo, two saunas, an insulated studio, and a two-car garage.
Home is set on a quiet country street on an elevated one acre parcel. Beautiful yard with wild life galore. Home is vinyl sided, with newer vinyl replacement windows. Heat by propane hot air system and a pellet stove. Sliders lead out to an attached screen porch. Home is fully applianced. Buyers are welcome to do any home inspections they want, but they are informed that home being sold "as is." Home is currently vacant and buyers agents and buyers enter at their own risk. All offers to include signed lead paint and home inspection disclosures.
Goshen is located in Massachusetts. Goshen, Massachusetts has a population of 870. Goshen is less family-centric than the surrounding county with 20.39% of the households containing married families with children. The county average for households married with children is 27.29%.
The median household income in Goshen, Massachusetts is $95,000. The median household income for the surrounding county is $76,959 compared to the national median of $69,021. The median age of people living in Goshen is 52.7 years.
The average high temperature in July is 78.5 degrees, with an average low temperature in January of 10.6 degrees. The average rainfall is approximately 51.9 inches per year, with 77.2 inches of snow per year.
