4 bedroom detached houses in Scugog

In Port Perry the detached four-bedroom is the move-up house, mostly built between the late eighties and the two-thousands on streets west of Old Simcoe Road and north toward the arena, with brick fronts, double garages and a finished basement more often than not. A smaller group sits on the older streets by the lake, where a Victorian two-storey on Mary or Perry Street has four rooms up and a third-floor attic. Rural Scugog supplies the rest. Raised bungalows on acreage count their lower-level rooms; farmhouses near Nestleton, along Cartwright's concession roads and around Greenbank carry four or five off the hall; and custom builds of the past two decades on estate lots near Utica and the moraine slopes offer the newest four-bedroom plans in the township, generally with a three-car garage and a walk-out where the land allows.

The bedroom count sets the load on the septic system, so ask the seller whether the bed was sized for four bedrooms or for the three the house had before the addition. Durham Region's health department reportedly holds the permit record for newer systems, and a pre-purchase inspection with a camera and a dye test is worth the fee. Ask what the outbuildings are permitted for, whether any land is rented to a farmer and when that lease ends, and whether the parcel sits in the Greenbelt or on the Oak Ridges Moraine, which restricts severance and new building. Check the driveway's length against the cost of ploughing and the distance to a school bus pickup. In town, the questions are simpler: grading, the sump pump, how old the shingles are and whether a permit covered the basement finishing.