Clark mentioned his household moved from Leesburg to Stoneleigh for its “laid-back” and “quaint, rural” environment.
The 18-hole championship golf course of the personal Stoneleigh Golf and Nation Membership weaves naturally between Stoneleigh’s 139 single-family properties. Every residence has been custom-built as households have step by step purchased up the 150 heaps, starting from one to 5 acres every, over the previous 30 years.
These properties, every with their very own architectural model, are enveloped by bushes and greenery. Calm ponds lower by way of the rolling terrain, whereas small farm buildings and little stone partitions — some greater than 100 years previous — dot the well-maintained panorama.
The personal nation membership, which most residents belong to, Clark mentioned, gives facilities to maintain households busy. Alongside golf, there are courts for tennis and pickleball and an out of doors pool, residence to the Stoneleigh Stars swim crew.
The golf course, completed in 1992, was designed by Corridor of Fame golf course architect Lisa Maki, who created it after the links-style golf programs in Scotland. Streets all through the neighborhood, comparable to Turnberry Drive and Prestwick Courtroom, are named after Scottish golf programs.
One other perk for membership members, Clark mentioned, is the Tavern, a restaurant for an off-the-cuff chunk for lunch or dinner. He and his household pop in through the week, and particularly on holidays, he mentioned, when the Tavern holds particular occasions, like a Mom’s Day brunch.
Different nation membership occasions embrace film nights, Fourth of July celebrations, company outings and weddings.
Entry to the membership requires a membership. The total membership entails a one-time $7,500 charge and a month-to-month charge of $395 for entry to all membership facilities and occasions, in accordance with membership director Clinton Chapman.
Stoneleigh residents do not mechanically get a membership to the membership, and it’s not required that they’ve a membership. Non-Stoneleigh residents can even grow to be members.
Stoneleigh’s location proper off Route 7 is “supreme,” Clark mentioned. “We are able to simply go to breweries or wineries to take heed to music and calm down and never have to fret about site visitors.”
Additionally close by is Sleeter Lake Park and locations for horseback driving, comparable to Purple Gate Farm. Instantly throughout Route 7 is Hill Excessive Market, residence to Mother’s Apple Pie at Hill Excessive and Extra Higher Restaurant & Beer Backyard, the place Blair Kaiser’s sons work.
Kaiser’s household moved in subsequent to the Clark household in July 2019, additionally for Stoneleigh’s location.
The retired Air Pressure pilot wanted to maneuver his household again to the Washington area, the place they lived from 2004 to 2011, as he turned a United Airways pilot out of Dulles Worldwide Airport and his spouse turned an working room nurse at Inova Loudoun Hospital.
Stoneleigh was an excellent possibility, Kaiser mentioned, because it’s simply accessible to their jobs in Dulles and Leesburg through Route 7, whereas additionally providing a number of land with out the “windy, gravel roads” seen in different close by rural neighborhoods, he mentioned.
“My commute to Dulles Airport is 30 miles, and 95 % of the time, the Waze navigation app tells me I’ll get there in simply half-hour; it’s unbelievable. There’s not a single stoplight,” Kaiser mentioned.
Pam O’Beirne, former HOA treasurer and president, and her husband began constructing their retirement residence in Stoneleigh in 1998.
Whereas there are nonetheless some retirees, O’Beirne mentioned, at the least 50 to 60 % of the properties at the moment are owned by youthful {couples} with kids. “Loads of us older those who got here within the ’90s have moved on as a result of our children are grown, and the properties are huge,” she mentioned.
One main benefit of Stoneleigh is how “charming” it’s, O’Beirne mentioned, with its pre-Civil Warfare character and mountaintop views.
The unique stone manor home — now a part of the Tavern restaurant — has the 12 months 1852 etched on the biggest chimney and was constructed and occupied by the James household, recognized stonemasons of Loudoun County on the time. The Jameses bought the property to William E. Dodd, the U.S. ambassador to Germany, in 1913, and it operated as a dairy farm and fruit orchard, O’Beirne mentioned.
After the property modified fingers a number of occasions, Bob Lewis, Bruce Brownell, and their Stoneleigh companions bought and developed this group that opened in 1992.
Some authentic buildings stay, together with a pink barn that was set afire through the Civil Warfare, and the Founder’s Cottage, from the mid-1700s, that’s now an Airbnb.
Annual HOA charges are $100 for the maintenance of Stoneleigh’s entrance entrance and mailboxes, O’Beirne mentioned.
Residing there: Stoneleigh is bounded by Route 7 to the north, Turnberry Drive to the west and south and Stoneleigh Golf and Nation Membership to the east.
In response to Leslie Carpenter, an actual property agent with Compass, there are two properties available on the market: one at $1,325,000 with 5 bedrooms and 4 and a half bogs, and the opposite at $1,350,000 with 5 bedrooms and three and a half bogs. Up to now 12 months, 10 properties have bought, and the typical gross sales value was $1,130,501. They ranged from $900,000 for a four-bedroom, three-and-a-half-bathroom residence that lacked updates and a completed basement, Carpenter mentioned, to $1,400,000 for a five-bedroom, five-and-a-half-bathroom residence.
Colleges: Mountain View Elementary, Concord Center, Woodgrove Excessive
Transit: The Purcellville Connector’s closest bus cease is on the Loudoun Valley Neighborhood Focus on 5 miles away. The Purcellville Park and Experience is round six miles away. The closest Metro station, Wiehle-Reston East on the Silver Line, is about 35 miles away.