South of Broad - Charleston SC homes for sale

Home for sale in South of Broad neighborhood

Main House: 3 bed, 2 1/2 bath

Carriage House: 1 bed / 1 bath (Rental History available)

3,400 sq. feet approx.

$799,000 - As is

(SOLD)

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This stylish, historic three-story residence was built in the early 1850’s, during Charleston’s antebellum golden age. Constructed in the popular “single house” style of the day, this home features the classic gable-roofed façade and double side piazzas that offers a more private entrance and better natural ventilation.

The brick siding created in plantation kilns is clad with pastel-colored layers of stucco, and is beveled and painted white on street-front corners with the distinctive style known as the “quoin”. Inside, elegant living rooms on first and second floors display wonderful heart-pine flooring cut from the ancient coastal forests of South Carolina, while joists, wooden framing and piazza columns include historic beams of cypress.

To the rear of the historic house, down the shaded path once used for horse and buggy, is a cozy, two-story carriage house. This attached smaller dwelling has its own private entrance from the rear house garden, where lush camellias and ferns offer a serene setting. Windows on the north façade overlook the spacious, manicured garden of the William Shingler house, built with a lavish Italianate design in 1853.  The Carriage House has been operated as a B&B through the Historic B & B in the past.

Among the splendid historic features built into the house by skilled 19th century craftsmen are incomparable parlor cornice mouldings and plaster ceiling medallions, as well as Ionic volutes atop rare jamb shaft columns on the dining room mantel. The exterior is distinguished by stucco belts courses, splayed lintels above street windows and capped chimneys along a marvelous gabled slate roof.