Home of the Week: Winthrop Victorian is a bright spot on a wintry day
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12 months designed 1900
Square feet 2,922
Bedrooms 5
Baths 2 entire, 2 half
Drinking water/Sewer Community
Taxes $9,209 (2021)
This 121-yr-aged Victorian is just a brief stroll to the shores of Winthrop Seaside, but it provides glimpses of Boston Harbor, not Logan Airport. That perspective is reserved for the other aspect of town.
![The front exterior of the home, which is a Victorian with brown cedar shake siding. the home has one dormer in the middle, a turret on the left, and a farmer's porch on the right. The driveway runs along the right, and there is a short, wide tree that still has leaves in late fall. The front yard also has grass, which has yellowed. The sky is blue with wisps of clouds.](https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/bostonglobe/YWXL7VCTEJC6VFX7AMZF7ECDJE.jpg)
![A view of the home's wooden front porch, which has white columns, cedar shake shingles, a black lantern, a rocking chair, a blue box on the planks with the house address number on it (24), and a red front door with elaborate white trim that looks almost Moroccan.](https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/bostonglobe/KRHQCOZRZZDRNF2KNPGXJNP7G4.jpg)
The elaborate and colourful front doorway opens into a chandeliered lobby with 10-foot ceilings, a doing the job fire with a attractive white marble mantel, and a stairwell on the suitable to the two upper flooring.
![A view of a foyer with a white marble fireplace that is lit. Above is a tall rectangular mirror that is flanked by sconces with white shades. The space also has a crystal chandelier, beige walls, and stairs with a patterned beige runner.](https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/bostonglobe/U67ZMLGKXFFKTB5X2BQM2D4BFY.jpg)
To the still left, a single finds the residing room and a critical element in Victorian houses: a turret. In this iteration, the circular area the tower varieties is a light-weight-bringer with a few curved home windows. The perspective into the room from this perch is a 2nd white marble fire, thick crown molding, hardwood flooring, recessed lighting, and a disk-like, time period gentle fixture with flecks of coloured glass.
![A view of the living room, which has a white marble fireplace, a disk-like chandelier with flecks of colored glass, hardwood flooring, a wide entrance to the foyer, white crown molding, tall baseboards. There is a hexagonal coffee table with a glass top. It has vases on top of books. A comfy white chair with a throw pillow, a tall plant, an arm chair and a cabinet are in the corners.](https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/bostonglobe/FDBW6WAA45DEXATGIJASDKNCDU.jpg)
A pocket door separates the residing home and the eating room, exactly where a crystal, candle-like chandelier hangs from a plaster medallion and casts a excellent glow on the cherry-red partitions. A designed-in china cabinet holds court in the corner, which also consists of a pair of home windows, skinny crown molding, tall baseboards, and French doorways to the spouse and children area, wherever the vibrant walls give way to a neutral palette, broad crown molding, and a wood ceiling that flows into the dining space of the take in-in kitchen.
![A family room with beige walls, three windows, a ceiling fan, a wood-plank ceiling, and hardwood flooring. There's a rug before the entrance to the kitchen. the home has leather chairs and a leather couch with throw pillows that are white, yellow, and an olive green pattern. A floor lamp is on in the far corner.](https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/bostonglobe/JO5PCULUIFGKRBVPNZWU6KRK2M.jpg)
The flooring shifts to big structure marble tile in the kitchen. The 755-sq.-foot kitchen area has been completely current to include things like granite counters high-finish stainless metal appliances, like a wine chiller and a fuel stove with a grilling spot an island with seating two sinks and dark honey-colored, lifted-panel cabinetry with smokey-glass doorways. The doing the job area of the kitchen area is awash in brightness from three pendant fixtures with mosaic glass and recessed lighting, a blend that generates bursts of pattern on the orange walls. A slider opens to the deck, which delivers a good spot to loosen up just after swimming in the heated in-floor pool.
A half bathtub with a long baroque-design and style mirror and a matching vanity topped with a granite, action-edged counter completes this flooring.
![A baroque-style mirror that is wide and rectangular hangs over a matching vanity with a honed-edge counter. There is a picture of a vase with flowers in a gold frame above the white toilet.](https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/bostonglobe/PGZUPPS7ZVDOZGVVYEBOKKKBLA.jpg)
The next degree holds the owner suite, two bedrooms, and a shared bath. The operator suite, which is about 265 square feet, offers the bay home windows of the turret and has broad crown molding that seriously hugs its curves. A crystal and brass light-weight fixture that mimics flowers hangs from a plaster medallion, and the flooring is hardwood. The en-suite shower-only bathtub has lavender partitions, white ceramic tile flooring, and a nondescript self-importance with a granite countertop.
![The owner suite has red walls, a brass and crystal chandelier, hardwood flooring, crown molding. the trim is white. There is a two poster bed with a white duvet, a settee in front of the bed, a small bureau with a shaded lamp, an end table with a shaded lamp, and a bureau.](https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/bostonglobe/2T56NWG6XBHJZNKVI36LSA3MVU.jpg)
The larger sized of the two other bedrooms (157 square feet compared to 130 square toes) delivers pairs of home windows and closets. The other has a single closet and two home windows. They share a entire tub with a tub/shower blend, a white ceramic tile floor, a window, green foliage-like partitions, and a dual vainness topped with Formica.
The prime floor includes the fifth bed room, a sunroom at the prime of the turret, and storage.
![The shared bath has green walls that look like foliage, a white ceramic tile floor, a tub/shower combination behind a sunflower curtain, two sets of bulb lights above a frameless mirror, a white dual vanity with two sinks and a granite countertop, beige and navy throw rugs, and a hamper with a plant on top.](https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/bostonglobe/QMWJZLXK4JGEBNYNX3QUWVK7XY.jpg)
![A curved room with an orange ceiling, several white-framed windows, grayish carpeting, and walls wallpapers with a navy blue and white design.](https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/bostonglobe/XU5WUHCFYRCHHHCMYFZQO7CMFA.jpg)
The basement is utilitarian and presents a laundry area, a sink, cabinetry, and a 50 {30865861d187b3c2e200beb8a3ec9b8456840e314f1db0709bac7c430cb25d05} tub with a single vanity and tile flooring. The residence sits on .15 of an acre.
![A view of the basement with tile floor, cabinetry, columns, exposed joists, and a laundry setup.](https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/bostonglobe/TKVGYKF7TNHJLAE63IXBKGCAYY.jpg)
Anna Colletta of C&C Realty Associates in Melrose has the listing.
See a lot more photographs of the home below:
![An aerial view of the Victorian home at 24 Temple Ave. in Winthrop and the other neighborhood homes, which have views of Boston Harbor.](https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/bostonglobe/OT6SOAGV6RGPTEKVP22W7X2CQ4.jpg)
![A blue bedroom with a bohemian-style fabric on the wall, blue walls, white crown molding, a bed with a pink throw, white furniture, and a ceiling fan.](https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/bostonglobe/STPMCKSOXJHPZIPEM7S5IXKM6E.jpg)
![This bedroom can be found on the top floor.](https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/bostonglobe/5447M2VBLZGPVO2U2LJIPIJZCE.jpg)
![An a-framed room with white walls and hardwood flooring. There is a wood bookcase, a box of things, a white bureau, and plastic drawers.](https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/bostonglobe/6KKJI37PJRAFNABP2C2UYRKMGU.jpg)
![A bedroom with hardwood flooring, beige walls, white crown molding, handing clothes, shoes on a rack, wood furniture, and a beige-colored plaid rug.](https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/bostonglobe/U4BA2IJPZRAO3EPLXCSULWFA7A.jpg)
![A diagonal view of the backyard pool and the rear of the home. Plants line the pool deck. The pool is covered with a green cover. The yard is made private by white fencing.](https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/bostonglobe/HSW22ZJTBBDGVFKJLMIXZ6XJ4Y.jpg)
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