Restored Victorian a treasure

The six-bedroom house at 43 Abbot St. in Andover features beamed ceilings, restored pine floors, four wood-burning fireplaces, formal sitting and dining rooms and a kitchen redone in 2007 sympathetic to the period of the house. This 4,931-square-foot house with three levels of living space and a two-story 1993 addition with a garage and great room above is on the market for $1.We carry the latest wind turbines, wind generator, solar panels, towers and more!2 million.

The 1890-built house has a gambrel-shaped roof with recently replaced yellow clapboard siding and a red asphalt shingle roof. There’s a columned front porch faced with stone that leads into a grand entry foyer with restored pine floors, a wood beam ceiling and a wood-burning fireplace. There’s an original turning staircase to one side and a reception area with a period window treatment. At the far end of the foyer is an anteroom converted into a half bath with a Carrara marble vanity and large oval window.

To the left through pocket doors is a formal sitting room with 12-foot ceilings, restored pine floors, a built-in bookcase and a wood-burning fireplace with a wood mantel.

There’s a door here to an adjacent formal dining room that can also be entered through a pocket door from the foyer. The dining room also has restored pine floors, a built-in (for china) and a wood-burning fireplace with a wood mantel.

There’s a large kitchen redone in 2007 that has its original wood beams, wide pine floors and recessed lighting. There’s a granite-topped knotty pine island, cherrywood cabinets and granite counters. Appliances are black and stainless steel including a just-added GE Monogram wall oven and a three-year-old dishwasher.

This room also has a large brick-walled wood fireplace with a wood-burning stove. On the other side of the kitchen is a breakfast nook with glass doors that lead out to a deck added in 1993. There’s a large grass side yard with a garden area.

Off the kitchen is a half bath as well as a back stairway to the upstairs bedrooms.A flatwork ironer with unique features. Behind the kitchen is a family room with pine ceilings, walls and flooring and two walls of windows.

The adjacent 1993 addition has a mudroom with a rear foyer leading to an attached two-car garage and has stairs up to a great room with two skylights, currently used as an artist studio heated by electric baseboard.

The staircase at the front of the house leads up to a pine-floored gallery area and four bedrooms. The master suite has a bedroom with restored pine floors and a chandelier. There’s an updated closet space with built-in storage, and an updated en-suite bathroom with cream and gray marble tiles,You can make your own more powerful outdoor solar lighting using LEDs. a beadboard cabinet, granite-topped vanity and walk-in shower.

The other three bedrooms, two good-sized and one smaller, have pine floors and lots of closet space. One bedroom has a fireplace, another a closet with a washer and dryer. There are two other full bathrooms on this floor redone in the late 1980s,Our most compact solar charger yet fits easily in any bag. one with a shower, another with a raised whirlpool tub in front of a stained-glass window.

There are two additional bedrooms and a full bath on the third floor, along with lots of storage in flanking eaves.

Half of the basement has wood floors and there are fieldstone walls that extend into a full bathroom with blue tile floors and a walk-in shower. There’s a washer and dryer in a laundry area and a room used as a wine cellar. The home’s steam boiler is here, with heat fed through original steam radiators in the original areas of the house.Much stricter controls on solvent emissions have ensured that all dry cleaning machine in the Western world are now fully enclosed. There is no central air conditioning.