19 Pendergast Drive — Darnley, Prince Edward Island

At roughly 960 square feet per floor, this is a thoughtfully proportioned four- bedroom home that lives bigger than it measures ? helped considerably by a 10'×40' covered west-facing deck that effectively adds 400 square feet of outdoor living room to the equation. That deck faces open sky over Darnley, which means unobstructed sunsets every evening and, when the stars come out over zero light pollution, some of the most spectacular night skies you'll find anywhere in Atlantic Canada. Inside, everything has been done. Not partially done. Not "mostly updated. Everything. Over $359,000 in documented renovations have been carried out since 2011, guided throughout by a single philosophy: no maintenance. Metal roofs on both the house and the barn. Premium Tando composite shake siding with foam insulation underlay ?the cedar look of a classic Island cottage, engineered to outlast it by decades. Some mornings you wake up and hear the ocean before you open your eyes. That's not a promise. That's just what happens when you open the bedroom patio door at 19 Pendergast Drive. Four hundred steps from this front door ? not a drive, not a long walk, four hundred steps ? is a wide, dune-backed stretch of PEI's north shore that most Islanders quietly consider one of the finest beaches on the Island. It has a name: Penderosa Beach. It has no parking lot. No concession stand. No crowds. The nearest public access point is more than a kilometre away in either direction ? which means in high season you're sharing the sand with a handful of neighbours and their guests, and little else. By September you might pass someone walking a dog. More likely you won't. This is the kind of access that doesn't come on the market. And it comes with a house and a barn that have been completely transformed. (id:63357)