100 Outlook Ledge

Plenty of homes on Glassy Mountain have a view. Very few have two, and fewer still sit on a granite ledge of their own. This one was sited for both.

From the front of 100 Outlook Ledge, the long view runs out toward Paris Mountain and the open Piedmont, and after dark the lights of Greenville come up along the horizon. Out back, the ridgelines rise toward Hogback Mountain over a broad shelf of native stone, reached by a short path and wide enough for two chairs and a slow sunset.

The owners bought the house in 2019 and have rebuilt it room by room ever since, in exactly the places buyers usually expect to fix. This year alone added Sierra Pacific windows across the north elevation and the great room, an eight-foot Sierra Pacific French door, a fully rebuilt Trex deck, a remodeled guest bath, and fresh paint inside and out.

There is a slab of granite behind the house that was watching these mountains long before anyone built beside it. A short path leads out to it. Two chairs wait at the edge, and in the last half hour of daylight the ridges go from green to blue to violet, one fold at a time.

The numbers

• 3 bedrooms
• 3 full baths, 1 half bath
• 2,937 heated square feet: 2,306 main level plus 631 finished lower level, measured by CubiCasa; workshop, utility room and two-car garage excluded
• 1.97 acres, Lot 147, on a private granite outcrop
• Built 2001
• Community well, septic
• Greenville County