207 Blockhouse Road, Landrum, SC 29356

Imagine rain on a tin roof. Then imagine hearing it from a screened porch built under exposed timber rafters, looking over a lawn, a year-round creek, and a stand of hardwoods, with nothing behind you but the old Southern Railway grade, soon to become the Saluda Grade Trail. This is the stretch of historic Tryon hunt country that sits between Landrum and Tryon, two towns with their own main streets and their own ideas about a Saturday, and it still puts you 40 minutes from downtown Greenville, 25 from Spartanburg, and 20 from Greer, Wade Hampton, and a Target run. The cottage dates to 1948 and was rebuilt by its current owners: a new primary suite wing in 2020, a new screened porch, a new metal roof, new central HVAC, and a new septic system. What they kept is what made the house worth keeping. Painted shiplap and tongue-and-groove pine run wall to ceiling, oak floors, reclaimed from a church near Greenville, carry the main rooms, and a stained-glass window still lights the original...