2 Bay View Road Dennis, MA 02638
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Key Details
Property Type Single Family Home
Sub Type Single Family Residence
Listing Status Coming soon
Purchase Type For Sale
Square Footage 2,288 sqft
Price per Sqft $1,090
MLS Listing ID 22603863
Style Cape Cod
Bedrooms 4
Full Baths 3
Half Baths 1
HOA Y/N No
Abv Grd Liv Area 2,288
Year Built 2003
Annual Tax Amount $8,417
Tax Year 2026
Lot Size 0.970 Acres
Acres 0.97
Property Sub-Type Single Family Residence
Source Cape Cod & Islands API
Property Description
Dinner.
Another chair was pulled up. Stories were told that everyone had heard a hundred times and somehow still wanted to hear again. Later came the old puzzles, the Monopoly games that never seemed to end and the same deck of cards with the same bent corners. Nobody called it making memories, it was our summertime.
And all these years later, we would give almost anything for one more of those days.
Perhaps that is why 2 Bay View Road tugs at you.
Hidden among the pines in the Bayview Beach enclave of Dennis Village is something increasingly rare: more than an acre of private land, a home built for gathering, and at the end of the road, the boardwalk to beautiful Bayview Beach.
There is a moment when you come through the trees and the property reveals itself--lawn and hydrangeas, shade and sunshine, and that wonderful sense of being tucked away from the world even though the beach is only steps away.
It doesn't take much imagination to see summer unfolding here.
Bare feet across the grass. Beach chairs left wherever somebody dropped them. Towels over the line. A cold drink under the covered patio after a long day in the sun. Children racing to be first into the outdoor shower. Someone announcing that friends are coming for dinner and someone else answering, "We'll make room."
Because that is what this place has always done.
The grandparents built this Cape some twenty years ago for a family that needed room to gather, spill over and stay awhile. Four bedrooms, two and a half baths, wonderful spaces inside and out, garages for all the things summer seems to accumulate--and enough land around it to breathe.
But those are simply the particulars.
The real luxury here may be what happens at the end of the road.
You wander down with your chair and book, cross the boardwalk and come through the dunes to that first glimpse of Cape Cod Bay. At low tide, the flats stretch so far you swear you could walk forever. You find the breeze, drop your chair and stay longer than you intended, because there is nowhere else you particularly need to be.
Eventually, the tide turns.
The cooler is lighter, the buckets are heavier, everyone is sandy and tired and happy, and you gather the whole mess together and head back home... On foot... From Bayview Beach.
That was once an ordinary part of summer in these little Dennis neighborhoods. Cottages nestled beneath the pines, generations of families nearby, children wandering back and forth, houses overflowing with company and nobody caring very much whether there was sand on the floor.
It isn't ordinary anymore.
The secret got out. Those little beach roads were discovered, old cottages disappeared, lots were divided, and Cape Cod changed. Beautiful homes can be built and rebuilt, but the land itself--the privacy, the space, the proximity to the beach--becomes more precious with every passing year.
Which is why finding more than an acre here feels almost like finding something that wasn't supposed to still exist.
For twenty years, one family has been its steward. Babies came, children grew, grandparents grew older. There was laughter here and heartache, celebrations and ordinary days, and summers that probably didn't seem nearly as precious while everyone was busy living them.
Now the family is ready to let it go.
And perhaps the loveliest thing about 2 Bay View Road is that the story doesn't have to end with them.
There can still be too many towels on the line.
There can still be another chair pulled up to the table.
There can still be sandy feet, bent playing cards, long walks on the flats, outdoor showers and children begging for just five more minutes before coming inside.
Because every once in a great while, if you're very lucky, you find a place where these are the good old days once again.
Location
State MA
County Barnstable
Zoning Residential
Direction Route 6a to new Boston to beach to Horsefoot to corner of bay view at sign.
Rooms
Other Rooms Outbuilding
Basement Bulkhead Access, Partial, Interior Entry, Full, Finished
Primary Bedroom Level First
Bedroom 2 Second
Bedroom 3 Second
Bedroom 4 Second
Dining Room Dining Room
Kitchen Kitchen
Interior
Heating Hot Water
Cooling None
Flooring Hardwood, Tile
Fireplaces Number 1
Fireplaces Type Gas
Fireplace Yes
Appliance Dishwasher, Refrigerator, Electric Range
Laundry Laundry Room, First Floor
Exterior
Exterior Feature Outdoor Shower
Garage Spaces 4.0
View Y/N No
Roof Type Pitched,Shingle,Tar/Gravel
Street Surface Paved
Porch Patio, Screened Porch
Garage Yes
Private Pool No
Building
Lot Description Level, Cleared, Wooded, North of 6A
Faces Route 6a to new Boston to beach to Horsefoot to corner of bay view at sign.
Story 2
Foundation Concrete Perimeter
Sewer Septic Tank
Level or Stories 2
Structure Type Clapboard,Shingle Siding
New Construction No
Schools
Elementary Schools Dennis-Yarmouth
Middle Schools Dennis-Yarmouth
High Schools Dennis-Yarmouth
School District Dennis-Yarmouth
Others
Tax ID DENN M:345 B: L:780
Distance to Beach 0 - .1
Special Listing Condition None
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