Planning to retire? Looking for a beautiful, accessible, wooded hilltop setting for you, as well as some open acreage for your horses? Dreaming of mountain and valley views? Hoping for an easy 25 minute commute to Carilion or downtown Roanoke?

My wife and I own Oak Hill Stables (http://www.oakhillstablesva.com), and we are moving forward with the sale of 30 of our 130 acres. This land sale represents a rare opportunity for the amateur equestrian to build their dream home right next door to one of the finer riding facilities in the Roanoke area. The proposed 30 acre tract would have +/- 5 acres of sloped open pasture, a small year round creek, and several potential home sites. Chief among the potential home sites is the 1,420′ summit of a hill that offers gorgeous northern views of Cahas Mountain, with peaceful southern highland views. The hill itself has an established logging road, thereby reducing the investment required to build a private drive to the desired home site. We are working with a surveying firm to subdivide the 30 acres into two +/- 15 acre tracts. We will accept offers of $300K for both 15 acre parcels; however, sold individually, the asking price will be $180K for each parcel. Interested parties are invited to ask for more information by email, or by calling me (Sean) on my cell (540-521-7819, before 10pm EST please).

Within 1–2 weeks I’ll be listing this property in the MLS. Buyer’s agents are invited to inquire. If you have a client that has been on the lookout for Franklin County land close to Roanoke with true horse farmette potential, with significant viewshed potential, then this may be the ideal property.

Gorgeous ridgeland buffer:

Potential home-site on summit of 1,420’ hill (labeled “Bunker Hill” on old maps, and in Google Earth as well). If desired, the hilltop could be cleared and would then offer +/– 2.5 acres of open land, with superb 360 degree views:

Pictured below is one perspective of the +/– 5 acres of open land. It begins at the fenceline (labeled with a ‘B’), continues outward and fronts our private road at left (Steeplechase Lane) for over 500’. We recently installed a $10K 32×14 double bay run-in shed with an 8×14 storage room. The run-in would convey, unless the buyer has no use for it. Near the run-in is a Bar-Bar-A automatic frost-free waterer. This would not convey unless under special arrangement with the buyer; we would be happy to convey the waterer and negotiate a fixed fee for the continued use of our water supply for the buyer’s horses while the buyer coordinates their own supply. Labels ‘C’ and ‘D’ illustrate how the small year-round creek travels through the property. Approximately where ‘C’ sits, the logging road begins, which travels up and around the ridge to arrive at the summit of “bunker hill”.

Cahas Mountain is one of the most beautiful and untouched mountains in the Roanoke area. This is only a small slice of the overall view potential from the prime potential home-site:

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