For $4.8 million, you can own NC mansion called ‘Shipwreck’ — with shipwreck included
Some island rentals tend to carry the boat and/or beach motif too far.
In this North Carolina home, there’s a boat stern being used as a seating area and a bow that’s been turned into bar. But it’s got an excuse — there’s an actual shipwreck underfoot.
“The Shipwreck” — as the design firm, Tongue & Groove, calls it — has elements thatlook and feel like a ship, according to Mark Batson Group of Landmark Sotheby’s International Realty.
It also happens to sit on the site of a 143-year-old shipwreck.
A lumber schooner called the John S. Lee set sail from Wilmington in 1877 but “was reported lost at sea with all hands missing,” an archaeologist and conservator told the Wilmington Star-News in 2017.
It turned up a few days later, broken in half on the beach, according to the newspaper.
More than a century later, a family from Winston-Salem chose the site — a vacant lot and private property on Figure Eight Island — for their modern mansion, the Star-News reported. They unearthed the remains in the process.
Now it’s for sale with a listing price of $4.85 million.
The home built in 2015 is 4,056 square feet with with four bedrooms, four bathrooms, a rooftop cabana and a pool “with 360-degree views of the Intracoastal waterway and Atlantic ocean,” according to a news release.
It’s designed to have features found on a ship. In addition to the stern and hull incorporated into the third floor, the house has porthole windows, doors that resemble boat hatches and a stainless-steel bathroom with a marine head and sink, the realty group said.
Outside, it’s made from mahogany wood, concrete and glass and can be cleaned with a boat brush and hose — just like a ship, according to the release. The wraparound deck was also designed to look like a ship deck.
Despite the apparent boat theme, owners Will and Christy Spencer call it something else.
”We decided to name the house Oo-tray, meaning passing the bounds of what is usual or considered proper; unconventional; bizarre,” the couple said in the release. “I thought it was fitting because the house is not normal. I wanted it to feel like a ship. I wanted everything to be built-in and the kitchen to have the galley feel with appliances tucked around the corner.”
