Wellesley, Ontario

1309 Queens
Bush Road

Private sale · CAD $1,895,000

An 1835 house of timber and stone, set among water, lawn and five covered porches.

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Private saleCAD $1,895,000

Bedrooms5

Bathrooms4

Measured interior6,553.32 sq. ft.

Covered porches5

Natural water features2

The house and the arrival

Standing here
since 1835

The drive turns in past mature trees and settles in front of a house that has held this ground for nearly two centuries. Inside there is 6,553.32 sq. ft. measured in total, and the plan spends it well: rooms wide enough to take a crowd, quiet enough to sit in alone, and windows that keep the grounds in view from most of them.

Top-down aerial view of the residence and grounds — The residence sits within a broad, mature landscape.

Aerial view along the driveway approaching the house and garage

Rear elevation with covered porches and upper balcony.

Front of the house seen through mature trees, with the oval window over the porch.

The grounds

Water, lawn
and five porches

The grounds include one natural swimming pool/pond, plus a separate natural pond. The lawn runs past a fountain and the deck at its edge. Five covered porches follow the sun around the house, so there is always somewhere shaded to sit and somewhere to watch the light go.

Aerial view descending toward the natural pool and rear deck

Rear exterior viewed across the pond garden.

Water features: one natural swimming pool/pond, plus a separate natural pond
Five covered porches

Inside

Timber, copper
and stone

Kitchen island and range viewed from across the room, with the oval leaded-glass window and stairwell visible beyond.

The chef's kitchen is the working centre of the house: a granite island, a commercial range with double ovens and warming drawers, multiple sinks, a pantry and a beverage bar. It is built to cook properly in, not to be looked at.

What surrounds it is the kind of detail that has to be made rather than ordered — hammered copper sinks, leaded glass beside the stair, curved brick steps rising to a custom timber door.

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