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"The Turrett House" Large Victorian beauty-Queen Anne Design. Double bowed front and walkup widows peak. This two-story home boasts 3194 sq.ft., 5 bedrooms,3 baths, unfinished walkup attic, a partial basement (ready for your wine cellar),a new 40 year roof(circa 2003), natural gas heat, Oak and pine floors four fireplaces, two staircases, front street parking and rear access via a quaint alleyway. It's located on the best street in the Village of Clifton Forge, Virginia and surrounded by other prominent historic homes.

Clifton Forge, Virginia is a charming village in Western Virginia with breathtaking mountain views and close proximity to cultural opportunities. It's thirty minutes from Historic Lexington, Virginia, home of the prestigious Virginia State Horse Center, 25 minutes from the legendary Homestead and Greenbrier Resorts. This little town that "the Railroad built" at the turn of the 20th Century is enjoying a rapid revival as "Baby Boomers" are seeking out that great place to retire. Clifton Forge is only minutes away from the Jackson and Upper James Rivers and Douthat State Park and is surrounded and protected by thousands of acres of National Forest. There are 5 Colleges within an hours drive, Washington and Lee University, V.M.I., Dabney Lancaster Community College, Hollins College,and Roanoke College. The large city of Roanoke with trendy shopping malls, Market Square,and fine resturants and theaters is less than an hour South. Medical care is 10 minutes West on Interstate 64 at the Alleghany Regional Hospital.