802 Dale Drive

Description

This is a rare gem on beautiful Dale Drive - a charming storybook Tudor featuring unique and beautiful original detailing combined with energy efficient updates plus a large rear addition with attached garage.Upon entry the soaring hall with flagstone floor and overhead turret reveals all 3 levels of the home in a unique architectural twist featuring an upper balcony overlook. The spacious and bright living areas original details include a vaulted cathedral ceiling with exposed beams, dual archway openings on either side of the oversized wood-burning fireplace and gleaming refinished original hardwood floors - all of which opens onto an all-season Florida room with floor-to-ceiling windows looking onto the flagstone patio. Perfect spaces for entertaining or channeling your inner homebody. The newly renovated kitchen with Bosch stove and LED undercabinet lighting leads to the large dining room and offers a convenient second entry adjacent to the driveway and garage. Perfect for unloading the groceries. This level also features a bedroom and spa-like bath with radiant in-floor heating and lovely travertine tile surrounding a walk-in shower and oversized jacuzzi tub. The upper level features two more bedrooms including the huge, light-filled primary suite which features double closets and plenty of space for a home office plus dual sliding glass doors which lead out to the newly refinished deck and a private screened porch overlooking the rear gardens and stone patio. The second upper level bedroom offers a large, light-filled corner space plus a large closet with window housed in the turret. The nearly quarter acre lot is truly a park-like setting with mature plantings, dry-stacked stone walls and flagstone paving in front and rear. Even the window well has a stone wall surround.Updates include a brand new Navien high efficiency combination boiler and tankless hot water heater which provides instant hot water and radiant heat throughout the home, a newly renovated kitchen, and, in 2023, new washer and dryer and all new exterior drainage system.The primary bedroom and garage which can fit two cars tandem are additions to the home done in 2008.802 Dale Dr is perfectly located in the leafy quiet neighborhood of South Woodside Park just one block to Sligo Creek Park trails, tennis and playgrounds and a half mile to Whole Foods and downtown Silver Spring with metro, AFI Silver Theatre, The Fillmore Theatre, restaurants, and shopping. Incredibly easy access to 495, Rock Creek, downtown DC and the future Purple Line. This home is perfectly situated and truly one of a kind!