House of the week: A four-bedroom century-old stone house in Bryn Mawr for $699,000
One selling point: walking distance to Wawa.
Elizabeth Monroe was living in New Jersey with her son in 2006 when she saw a listing in Bryn Mawr, and thought it might be time to go back to the town where she’d grown up.
“I hadn’t even gone inside it,” she said. “but I loved the Tudor look and the stone.
“It’s a soulful kind of house. A friend once called it my ‘sanctuary,’” she recalled.
The four-bedroom, two-bathroom house spans 1,762 square feet.
Monroe, an ordained Presbyterian minister who mostly worked as a hospice chaplain, said she had considerable renovations done, mostly on the first and second floors.
The house, has a gated front porch, original hardwood floors, and deep-set windows.
The kitchen has white cabinetry, black granite countertops, and updated appliances.
The living room has a working gas fireplace.
Each of the two second-floor bedrooms has its own sitting room, which could be used as a home office, reading room, art studio, or playroom.
The third floor has two additional bedrooms and a hall bathroom.
There is high velocity central air and 200-amp electrical service.
There is a private brick patio, a fenced outdoor space, and a detached one-car garage. It is walkable to the Bryn Mawr Regional Rail station.
And “it’s walkable to the Wawa,” Monroe joked. And since the parking lot there is often congested, “I thought that this might be a selling point.”
The house is in the Radnor School District.
It is listed by Colleen Whitlock and Brianna Golden of Keller Williams Main Line for $699,000.