The Good Life on Swains Lake at 74 Edgewater Drive, Barrington NH

Swains Lake Waterfront • 74 Edgewater Drive, Barrington, New Hampshire

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Presented by Michael Travis, REALTOR® Bean Group, 4 Stevens Avenue, Meredith, NH O: 800-450-7784 • C: 603-303-2599 w w w.W a t e r f r o n t A g e n t . c o m

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hey say you may never remember a particular year, or a particular day or even a particular hour. However you will always remember a moment. A perfect lake home is full of so many moments to cherish forever. Like the moment you see the first life long love of the loons at your dock, or the calm early morning kayaking when the cool mist rises up around you to the warm spring air, or the gigantic fish that got away, or the time you successfully jumped off the dock with all your grandkids in tow. For the owners of 74 Edgewater Drive, those moments are forever ingrained into their everyday with annual flags emblazoned with the hand written names of all the kids who stayed and posted signs of the locations of their friends who visited. Now it is time for your moments to be remembered. Swains lake is the perfect full activity lake for all water sports, fishing, swimming and quiet times. The home with its 4 car garage has a huge second separate great room with cathedral ceilings, bath and plumbed for an additional kitchen built in 2013. The original section of the house was significanty renovated in 2007. Entertain in the open plan kitchen and great room with plenty of gathering places, multiple decks and a rare private level yard and 240 feet of frontage to call your own. When you think of life on the lake perhaps you will live it here. Everything else inside and out is ready to create your own life long memories on the lake.

Swains Lake Waterfront • 74 Edgewater Drive, Barrington, New Hampshire

Swains Lake Waterfront • 74 Edgewater Drive, Barrington, New Hampshire

Swains Lake Waterfront • 74 Edgewater Drive, Barrington, New Hampshire

Swains Lake Waterfront • 74 Edgewater Drive, Barrington, New Hampshire

Swains Lake Waterfront • 74 Edgewater Drive, Barrington, New Hampshire

Beautiful Level Lot with 240 feet of water frontage

Sandy Beach Adjacent to Association Lot

Plenty of Level Land to Play

South Western Exposures

Plenty of Land to Play

Swains Lake Waterfront • 74 Edgewater Drive, Barrington, New Hampshire

LOT • 240 feet of shoreline • Huge pine and hardwoods on entire lot • Abuts wooded common lot with sand swimming beach.

• Blueberry bushes • Floating dock, 12x12 with gangway.

• Boat mooring • Level area for entertaining

INTERIOR HOME FEATURES • Open concept kitchen with ample storage and counters.

• Slide out spice racks and pot holders.

• Large vaulted family room with wall of windows toward lake.

• Flueless propane fireplace with temperature controls.

• Ceiling fans and recessed lighting.

• Floor power outlets • Pocket doors to master bedroom • Private deck off master bedroom.

OUTDOOR HOME FEATURES • Laundry in master bath • Large slate patio with stone • Bay window on stairway to fireplace lower level.

• 20’x15’ fenced garden plot • Lanterns along 180’ driveway • Tile floors throughout main house with exception of carpet • Stone steps leading up to in bedrooms. columned entryway • Large tiled entry hall with built • Sunny family room on lower level. in cabinets and counters.

• “Lake Room” on lower level with glass door to back yard, full bath, utility tub, refrigerator and second laundry.

• Root cellar with trap door access.

GARAGE Four Bay garage: • 28’ deep, 50’ wide • Insulated and heated.

• Oversize doors, 10’ x11’ • Fully open, no vertical posts • Additional full size door on side of garage Living space over garage: • 1200 sq ft • Full bath and en-suite vanity • Vaulted ceiling with ceiling fans • Floor outlets, (5) • Knee wall storage space • Wood laminate flooring, tile in bath • Plumbed and wired for possible kitchen • Large, 20’x12’, deck adjacent to glass sliders

Outdoor Living • Total of three Trex decks, two large for entertaining and one smaller off Master Bed Room

Swains Lake in Barrington, New Hampshire

the boat launch for fishing but no swimming areas on the lake are open for public use. The is an association beaches for residence near

Lakeside drive well off Lakeside Road Motor boats, fishing boats, paddle boats, canoes and kayaks are all allowed on Halfmoon Lake.

There are no public beaches, but several vacation rentals have private beaches.

The Swains Lake Association was found-

ed in 1975, and has been commited to One of the prime lakes in the town of Barrington in Strafford County set against the backdrop of conservation land and fine lake homes is a beautiful, quiet lake in New Hampshire close to the Seacoast, UNH, and all that makes New Hapshire great. It has a couple of islands and many coves hiding some great fishing spots.

The lake covers 341 acres with a maximum depth of 25 feet. Classified as a mesotrophic lake, it is a moderately fertile lake supporting healthy populations of fish.

Pickerel, horned pout, and white perch all make their home in the lake, and anglers can try their luck against the lake’s largemouth bass.

There is a public launch off of Young Road. The

only form of public access to Swains Lake. There is a small area at

protecting and improving the lake. Bar-

rington was incorporated in 1722. The town was made up

of two grants, the first containing all of Strafford and pres-

ent-day Barrington except for a parcel two miles wide called New Portsmouth, or the Two Mile Streak. This second grant

had been set aside to provide fuel and home sites for im-

ported workers at the Lamprey River Iron Works, chartered in 1719 by the Massachusetts General Court to encourage industrial development in the province.

Slow at first to be settled because of rocky soil, Barrington by 1810 had 3,564 residents, then the state’s third larg-

est town, its primary industry the smelting of iron ore.

The Isinglass River, together with its tributaries, provided wa-

ter power for grist, fulling and saw mills. In 1820, Strafford was set

off from Barrington, reducing its land area by about half, because of lengthy travel required to attend town meetings.

Swains lake is within an hour

from Concord, Portsmouth, the seacoast and the White

Mountains. It is also around 90 minutes to Boston.

Life on Swains Lake is

always rich with fond memo-

ries for generations to enjoy.

Make it The place to be for your lake home.

Swains Lake

• Swains Lake is 341 acres • 25 feet deep, 5 ft average • Loon nesting grounds • Water from Swains Lake flows via the Bellamy River to the Piscataqua River estuary.

• Twitter: @SwainsLakeAssoc

Swains Lake Waterfront • 74 Edgewater Drive, Barrington, New Hampshire

Presented by Michael Travis, REALTOR® Bean Group, 4 Stevens Avenue, Meredith, NH O: 800-450-7784 • C: 603-303-2599 w w w.W a t e r f r o n t A g e n t . c o m