Address: 2856 W. Forest Road, Freeport
Property description: This four-bedroom, 4.5-bathroom home is in Deer Haven, a one-of-a-kind gated estate with more than 15 acres of privacy and mature trees on the edge of Freeport. It has 5,788 square feet of living space.
Enter through the private gate to a circular drive surrounding a fountain. The home has a covered front porch and a grand foyer. There is a sunken family room with a gas fireplace and a formal dining room. The living room has beamed ceilings and a second gas fireplace. It flows into the eat-in kitchen with granite countertops and soft-close cabinetry.
The main level also includes a full bathroom, laundry room and access to a three-season screened porch. The primary wing has a bedroom, an ensuite bathroom with a walk-in shower, double vanity and a walk-in closet. Connected to the primary suite is a versatile private lounge.
On the opposite side of the primary bedroom is a room currently used as a second walk-in closet which could be another bedroom. The walkout lower level has a second full eat-in kitchen, a recreation room with a woodburning fireplace, sliding doors leading outdoors, two more bedrooms, two full bathrooms and three bonus/flex rooms, including one currently used as a billiards room.
There is an attached, heated two-car garage and a detached four-car garage with epoxy flooring, office space, a half-bathroom and upper-level sleeping quarters. A hobby barn/storage building (built in 1950 and the former home of historic Bill Koenig Apiaries and Alice Ann Honey) is also included and being sold in its current condition.
Asking price: $650,000
Listing agent: Nick Block, Fawn Ridge Real Estate, 815-906-1701
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Kathi Edwards is a freelance contributor to the Freeport Journal-Standard.
This article originally appeared on Journal Standard: On the market: Sprawling Freeport estate sits on 15 private acres
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