25 WELLINGTON STREET

Key facts

• Property type: Single Family
• Structure: House
• Transaction: For Sale
• Price: class="container" id="details-container",375,000
• Bedrooms: 5
• Bathrooms: 3
• Lot size: 35.1 x 67.4 FT ; irregular
• Parking: 2
• Listing key: 29737075

Listing overview

25 Wellington St, making its first appearance on the market since 1963, is a landmark two and a half storey limestone home (with a superb modern board and batten addition) one very short block from Kingston's City Park and two from Lake Ontario. Located between the market square and the university and the hospitals, this wholly magnificent property offers the perfect riposte to those who feel the world is crumbling around us. The formal living and dining room have nearly unreachable ceilings and plaster mouldings. Serious plans have been hatched, I bet, in these spacious parlours, secrets confided amid the cool lath and plaster. There are three fireplaces (including one in the largest of the second-floor bedrooms), more staircases than I could count, and a very rare "horsewalk" - an interior alleyway intended to permit a horse to be moved into long-gone rear stables. A window on the land...