Set on one of the lushest lots in Gulf Park — the established Cedar Bluff pocket of West Knoxville — 1109 Venice Rd is a 1971 brick split-foyer that has had one owner since 1984, and the care shows.
The showpiece is a two-story angled window wall over the entry — light pours across the living room’s cathedral ceiling and exposed beams in a way nobody builds today. The main level holds three bedrooms and two full baths, including the primary suite with its own bath and walk-in closet, plus formal dining, an eat-in kitchen, and a beamed family room with a brick fireplace that opens to the screened porch.
Downstairs is the surprise: an oversized rec room with a floor-to-ceiling stone fireplace, a stone wet bar, a fourth bedroom and third full bath — and sliding doors straight out to the covered patio and wooded backyard.
Add a tankless water heater, insulated windows, hardwoods on the main, a side-entry basement-level garage, and an HOA of just $35 a year, all on 0.41 wooded acres dotted with Japanese maples. Listed by Hilary Kilgore, Keller Williams Signature · MLS #1352859.
This is my listing, and I’ll say it plainly: Gulf Park is the kind of established Cedar Bluff street people drive down and wonder why nothing ever comes up for sale. Mature canopy, real lots, a $35-a-year HOA — and the same family has loved this house since 1984.
What makes it worth the trip is the light. That two-story angled wall of glass over the entry is something nobody builds anymore, and it changes the whole main level. At about $192 a square foot, compare it to what $450K usually buys in West Knoxville — smaller, newer boxes on bare lots — and the math starts arguing for character.
The honest note: it’s a true 1971 original. The split-foyer stairs greet you right at the door, a few rooms wear bold paint, and the lower level is carpeted. If you want turnkey gray-on-gray, this isn’t it. If you want bones, light, and a lot you can’t replicate, it very much is.
Come walk it with me Saturday. Start in the living room under the glass, then head down to the stone fireplace and the wet bar — that’s when it clicks.
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