184 Phillips Lane

Two acres in Northville, which the records file under the town of Riverhead. The approach is one line in the listing: east on Sound Avenue, then south on Phillips Lane. The parcel runs 87,120 square feet, two acres to the foot, and it is not waterfront. The MLS files it in the Clover Place section, the county record enters zoning 04, and the tax source is the municipality with trash included in the bill. The listing calls the character of the place quiet and pastoral, and the North Fork does most of that work: the beaches, the farm stands, the vineyards and the villages, all of them close. The view is entered as open and the fencing as partial. The listing enters the schools as Riverhead: Aquebogue Elementary first, then Riverhead Middle and Riverhead Senior High.

The house dates to 1978, two storeys of frame under shingle siding, entered in the MLS as Cape Cod, twelve rooms across 2,600 square feet. The primary bedroom and its bath sit on the first floor with the kitchen, the den, the laundry and a formal dining room, and the one fireplace is in the living room. Three more bedrooms are upstairs with a full bath of their own. The lower level is a walk-out, partially finished, holding an office, an auxiliary room and a fourth bath. Floors are hardwood, cooling is central, heat is oil through baseboards, and the porch is covered. Public records enter a renovation in 2013. Five bedrooms and four baths in all. The barn is the structure that makes the parcel read as a small farm rather than a large yard, and there are two garage spaces besides. Mature planting and lawn run out from the house on every side, and the attic above is partial and unfinished. What Sound Avenue puts within reach is the rest of the argument: the farm stands, the vineyards, the villages and the beaches, all of it entered in the listing as moments away.

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