Rockland/Orange Less than $300,000 Walden $295,000 11 Westwood Drive, Orange Number of bedrooms: 3 Number of full bathrooms: 2 Number of half bathrooms: 0 Weeks on market: 28 weeks 37-year-old aluminum and brick colonial; pantry, family room, sunroom, fireplace, wood-burning stove, deck, 0.94-acre lotaxesxes $5,477; listed at $299,000.
The boat's stove, on deck, was an old automobile tire rim filled with charcoal.
The smokeless fuel used in the stove below deck taints everything with its residue.
The house has two full baths, one fireplace, a wood-burning stove, a deck facing the harbor and a registered boat buoy.
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Each canvas tented lodge has a double bed, wood-burning stove and outdoor deck overlooking the Holmes Dunes National Nature Reserve: an area of outstanding natural beauty.
Built by hand and perched on a wooden platform over a private pond, the cabin has everything required for a honeymoon-type hideaway: paper lanterns, skylight above the bed, wood-burning stove and sun deck.
Rockland/Orange Chester $280,000 94 Booth Road, Orange 3 2 1 7 weeks 27-year-old high ranch; brick and vinyl siding, stainless-steel appliances, family room w/gas stove, sunroom, c/a, deck, 1.8-acre 1.8-acreimated taxes $10,500; lottestimated9,900.
The house was fitted out with must-have details of its era —a sauna and hot tub, a spiral staircase leading to a loft, a wood-burning stove, a wraparound deck, one bathroom with a baby blue sink and gold-plated faucets and another with blood red tiles in the shower that were "just a little scary," Mr. Trapp said.
There are a wood-burning stove, a fireplace, a deck and two bathrooms.
Connecticut Less than $300,000 Watertown $251,000 9 Booth Avenue Number of bedrooms: 3 Number of full bathrooms: 1 Number of half bathrooms: 1 Time on the market: 2 days 30-year-old wood-sided Cape Cod; eat-in kitchen, fireplace, wood-burning stove, full basement, rear deck, 2-car garage, 0.46-acre lot; taxes $2,750; listed at $250,000 (multiple bids).
