447 ORANGE ST

Some houses are just houses. This one lets you exhale. Step down into the sunken living room of this 1937 stone cottage, light the stone fireplace, and feel the day loosen its grip. Wide-plank white oak and slate carry you from room to room, a second fireplace waits for colder nights, and the remodeled kitchen, with Amish-crafted shaker cabinet fronts, has a nook made for slow mornings. Four bedrooms, 1.5 baths, 2,206 square feet, and outside, flagstone paths winding through an English garden on 0.66 acre, a private place for coffee at sunrise and a book as the light fades. The updates are done: gas heat, a new sewer line, updated electric. Tucked into Northumberland, a quiet river town founded in 1772. A storybook cottage is easy to love. One this peaceful is rare. Come feel it.