Beautiful properties located on the west coast of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
This has been called an ‘old-fashioned acreage’ meaning it is not a long strip (usually created by subdivisions) but close to a square, 2700 ft by 3000 ft. The Smithville Road provides one of the long sides of the property, and the old railway line running from Inverness to the Canso Causeway - now the Celtic Shores Coastal Trail - is the other long boundary.
The Grant house has the very best ‘iconic’ Inverness view - meaning the harbour, wharf, boats, Cabot Links, the beach dunes, the ocean, and of course sunsets over the sea - that there is. There are no power poles and cables in sight, no highway and traffic between house and view, as this property is - unlike the others in this area - on the ocean side of Central Avenue. This panorama in Inverness has no compare. No photo can do justice to the 180 degree breadth of view standing in front of the house.
The older home, in excellent condition, is unusual for its time in being built as a duplex, each side having kitchen, dining and living rooms on the main floor with bath and three bedrooms upstairs.
The parcel is huge for a town lot: 0.7 acres.
Talk about ‘on the river’ - this substantial three floor home is in a perfect position to view the river from windows, decks, and the screen porch. The home has a living room with a dramatic cathedral ceiling, 6 bedrooms and two bathrooms, and a beautiful waterfront site with mature deciduous trees. The full basement, siding and much else is very recent, starting in 2019.
Right on Inverness’s “busy corner” is this part commercial/part residential building well known to all denizens of the town. The 6,250 sq ft lot borders on the post office building in the rear, across the street is the Firehall, and next door is the bank building - you can’t get a more central location than this!
The building has two main floor commercial spaces, with 10 foot ceilings, very large picture windows on the street, and a toilet in each side. Upstairs is an apartment with 3 bedrooms - two of them very small, as is the bathroom.
The entrance to this huge parcel of land is across the highway from the road into Chimney Corner beach. The property has a road through it and some small areas of cleared land, meadows - remnants of the homestead that was once here. Otherwise it is a tract of forested land, largely hardwood, with some spruce here and there.
This home shows all the most desirable qualities of a house in town: a large landscaped lot, quiet street, fully renovated, low maintenance, and complete with all furniture and equipment. Three bedrooms and bathroom upstairs, powder room on the main level. Two entrances on the street side and one at the back to the rear south-facing deck.
