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Standalone West Midwood House With Fetching Detail, Mahogany Woodwork Asks $2.15 Million

This fully detached single-family, at 1427 Glenwood Road in West Midwood, needs a few updates, but it’s got some wonderful features and a ton of space. With three stories and six bedrooms, it’s 25 feet wide and sits on a 50-by-105-foot lot, so square footage is not in short supply.

West Midwood Brooklyn House for Sale -- 1427 Glenwood Road

by Chris Erikson

03/23/2016 3 minute 0

The bottom floor has got some fetching detail — note the coffered ceiling, columns and inlaid floors in the living room, and especially the curved wooden window benches that bracket the brick fireplace. Or check the mantel with the leaded glass cabinet in the dining room, and the other mahogany woodwork.

The kitchen looks a bit tired, and there are other matters that need attention — some carpeting that needs pulling up, some wallpaper that needs stripping. But the effort doesn’t look to be huge, and the rewards could be significant.

There are six potential bedrooms — one is small and would be better suited as an office or the like, but the others are all good sized, and the ones on the third floor are light-flooded. There are two baths and plenty of closets.

There’s a screened porch in front, a deck and yard in the back, and a large driveway. Also a pool, which is not pictured — presumably it’s an above-ground model.

The house sits at the end of a cul-de-sac, which makes for a peaceful block — with the significant exception of the Q train rattling by a few dozen yards away.

Listed by Chris Cavorti and Evan Church of Corcoran, the house — which has been in the same family for decades, according to sales reports — is asking $2.15 million. Which would have been a pipe dream not long ago, but perhaps not now. What do you think?

[Listing: 1427 Glenwood Road | Broker: Corcoran] GMAP