Whether you have horses, cows, goats and/or chickens or you want to grow your own hay and produce this is the ideal farm. Not too much acreage to be manageable, yet enough to accomplish all of your farming goals. This 5 bedroom home has 3,662 square feet of warm, comfortable living. Major additions and renovations in 2005 include the addition of a two car garage, metal roof, large tiled laundry room, powder bath, living room with hardwood floors and wood accents. An open floor plan has the new living room open to the dining area allowing guests to enjoy the wood burning stove and views of the pastures and farm. A private stair case accesses the new quest bedrooms. Both bedrooms are generous in size with large closets and share a full bath with tile floors. The owners did a wonderful job of maintaining the warmth and character of this Dutch Colonial home with the additions and design. The kitchen is open to the keeping room with a floor to ceiling brick fireplace chimney separating the two areas. A wood burning stove on the kitchen side and a wood burning fireplace on the keeping room side. Two story ceilings with tongue and groove wood, along with the wood and wrought iron open staircase create a warm and cozy area with personality. A large walk-in pantry ensures you can accommodate all of your canned vegetables and fruits, as well as, small kitchen appliances. Walk out the kitchen and enjoy morning coffee on the screened in porch overlooking the pasture and back yard. The master suite includes a walk-in closet and private bath with claw foot tub and separate shower. Two guests bedrooms and a Jack-n-Jill bath over the master suite would also make ideal offices, if you dont need all five bedrooms. Someone was smart and built a large tiled laundry room allowing everyone to leave the debris from the farm behind. Plenty of room for a freezer or for keeping dirty dogs confined until they get cleaned up. A powder bath is close at hand as well, so you dont have far to go when coming from outdoors. The 4 stall barn has a wide concrete aisle way, tack room and hay loft. Large end doors keep things warm in the winter and cool in the summer. The garden area has an equipment/tool/garden shed, as well as, houses the second well on the property. Livestock can be confined safely in the pastures fenced in 4 strand high tensile fencing. Currently the owner gets around 1,500 bales of hay off the fields, so if you dont need the space for livestock, grow your own hay and sell enough to get an agricultural property tax exemption. This beautiful setting is still within an hour of Charlotte and much closer to the Ballantyne area. So much house and land for this price is hard to find in the greater Charlotte area.