1690 Ellis Lewis Farmstead

5 acres of the original 200 bought by the first Quaker settler on top of the watershed between the Delaware and Susquehanna rivers 10 miles from Philadelphia with 18th century stone buildings built into the bank above a spring on fertile farmland adjacent to a 30 acre Preserve.
1720 stone house, wing added in 1735, with 6 bedrooms, four baths and modern mechanical systems, but retaining many original details: paneling, hardware, exposed beams, doors and flooring. 5 fireplaces, 3 wells, and septic system.
1st fl: full bath, living room, dining room, kitchen, enclosed porch the length of the building, 3 fireplaces
2nd fl: 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, 2 fireplaces
3rd fl: 1 bath, 2 bedrooms, storage in attic
Basement under 1735 wing
Stone carriage house with 1 bedroom apartment upstairs, study, mechanical room and garage on first floor.
Remains of 1775 bank barn with repointed 12 foot stone walls on 3 sides.
Frame corn crib with stone root cellar purported to be a site of Underground Railroad.
Horses and bow deer hunting permitted on property.
Mature collection of hybrid Azalea, Rhododendron, Holly and a 300+ year old Sycamore tree.
On a private road at a distance from the main road and surrounded by wooded Preserve; feels like deep country setting; magical.

The land time left behind.

Two, adjacent 2-acre parcels of the Farmstead, including the cave Ellis Lewis excavated into the bank when he first arrived that is now the basement of a small stone building he built over it, foundations of 18th century barn and house, large19th house will be possible to aquire.

Details

Property ID
632190

6
Bedrooms

4
Bathrooms

Square Footage
3370

Lot Size
5

Year Built
1720

Style
Colonial

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