Duffer’s Delight Outside Ambler for $677K
Looking for a good place to spoil your walk? This home overlooking a fairway comes with membership in the surrounding country club included in the purchase price.
1116 Greystone Rd., Ambler, Pa. 19002 | Bright MLS images via Better Homes Regional Realty
Now that Tiger Woods has more or less left the building, most of us can go back to not particularly caring about golf. The sport of business executives and a certain class of politician has long had its detractors, one of whom at some time in the distant past came up with a summary of the game so resonant that even its admirers have written books with it in the title: “a good walk spoiled.”
Yet some developers recognize that those who do love the game want to play it whenever they can. These people go out and design golf courses, then surround them with houses whose residents will presumably use the links.
That presumption is baked into this home in Horsham Township, outside Ambler. (Come to think of it, “Ambler” is an appropriate name for a community where one might put a golf course.) Like its neighbors, this Colonial was built as part of the Talamore Country Club development and backs up onto one of the golf course’s fairways.
Buy it and you become a member of the club.
Family room
You also get a nicely outfitted Colonial whose current owner decided to throw a bit of the rococo into its interior spaces. Or at least some of them.
Dining room
Kitchen
The family room with its wood-burning fireplace and the dining room (but not its furniture) are pure expressions of Colonial style, for instance, while the totally up-to-date kitchen got the ruffles and flourishes with fancy lighting over the granite-topped island and leaf-topped columns supporting it, not to mention those window treatments.
Breakfast room
The adjacent breakfast room is less fussy and more sunny thanks to its large windows.
Master bedroom
The upstairs master suite includes several nice features. It has a spacious bedroom and sitting room…
Master suite deck
…a private deck overlooking the backyard…
Master bathroom
…and a sumptuous spa-like marble-tiled bath with multiple heads and sprays in the shower, a dual vanity, and a soaking tub with an entertainment center and speakers built in.
Basement media room/bedroom
In addition to the three other bedrooms on the second floor, the basement media room is set up so that it could be used as a fifth bedroom as well, as it is in this photo.
Backyard
Aerial view
This home has its own backyard with a paver patio, but in back of the trees at the far end you’ll find the golf course. Your club membership gives you access to the links as well as tennis courts, a swimming pool and a club house where you can entertain visiting guests.
And when you want a change of pace from the country club life, Ambler, Lansdale, Fort Washington and shopping on Route 309 are all a short drive away, as is the Lansdale/Doylestown Regional Rail line should a night on the town strike your fancy.
THE FINE PRINT
BEDS: 4 (plus optional fifth)
BATHS: 2 full, 1 half
SQUARE FEET: 3,098
SALE PRICE: $676,900
OTHER STUFF: This home’s sale price has been reduced twice, most recently by $8,000 on Aug. 7.
1116 Greystone Rd., Ambler, Pa. 19002 [Sean Ryan | Better Homes Regional Realty via Zillow]
Updated Aug. 16th, 8:37 a.m., to correct the location of the home.
