This Week’s Best: A Grand Tudor and a Couple Craftsman Gems

It was a quiet week, more of a back-to-school week than a let’s-sell-the-house week.

The best new listing is in High Point’s Emerywood neighborhood. If there’s a more attention-getting house for sale in High Point than 427 Woodbrook Drive, I’d love to see it. The Alex and Adele Rankin House is a grand Tudor Revival on a big lot, white with yellowish-brown half-timbers, shutters and trim. It’s for sale at $950,000; at 3,753 square feet, the price is $253/square foot, relatively reasonable for a house like this these days. Built in 1924, it has a grand vaulted Tudor living room and period color tile in the bathrooms.

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Feature of the Day: A Tudor Front Door

Doors can be such interesting features. This is the front door of 245 N. Hawthorne Road in Winston-Salem. Very distinctive shape and construction (wide, too). Just the kind of front door a Tudor Revival should have. The whole house is gorgeous, as its $525,000 price suggests. It went on the market last week, and the owners accepted an offer four days later.

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