Hummingbird Manor

The Grounds

A backyard with its own blueprint.

Most estates at this level have landscaping. This one has a master plan, drawn by Graham Kimak, a landscape designer with thirty-four years in the upstate who worked with this family for close to twenty of them and installed the plan in patient phases rather than all at once.

Drainage first, then irrigation to the house, the pool, the right pasture and the road frontage. Then the painted brick entrance walls and the motorized gates. Then stone and brick columns, urns and fountains, landscape lighting, twenty thousand square feet of sod, and specimen trees moved in at full size. Kimak puts the value of that work between $490,000 and $535,000.

Which is why the place reads as settled rather than staged. You cannot buy this on a build timeline. You wait fifteen years for it, or you buy the one where somebody else already did.

The motorized gates open to the house beyond

The Pool and Pavilion

This is the part that stops people walking.

Gunite finished in premium Pebble Tec, a drystack rock waterfall, a fountain, cake steps easing down to a bench seat in the deep end, a Paramount in-floor cleaning system and two energy-efficient pumps doing the work out of sight.

Beside it stands a brick pavilion built to hold a party: a full outdoor kitchen under a vaulted tongue-and-groove ceiling, custom cabinetry, granite, gas piped in for the grill, and its own bath so nobody tracks the afternoon through the house. A drystack stone fireplace with gas assist anchors the far end of the terrace for the evenings nobody wants to end.

The House

It started at 1,200 square feet.

A modest family home, built in 1978. The owner grew up on this property, inherited it, and then spent the better part of two decades turning it into something else: taken to the studs and expanded in 2001, renovated again top to bottom through 2026.

What is there now is a shingle-and-brick manor carrying the easy grace of a Cape Cod summer house, three finished levels over solid red oak floors recently refinished, premium lighting, Andersen windows, and a gas-log fireplace holding the living room. The den runs twenty-two by thirty feet with doors on two sides, opening to the wraparound porch above the pool.

Underneath the beauty sits real infrastructure: a Generac whole-house generator, three Trane systems installed in 2021 with dehumidifying technology, foam insulation, gas hot water, a new security system, a Grand Manor luxury shingle roof and fiber internet.

The stair hall looking through to the terrace

The Kitchen

Built for people who actually cook.

A Viking commercial gas cooktop with a telescoping downdraft, a forty-eight-inch Sub-Zero, double Dacor convection ovens, two Fisher and Paykel dishwashers, premium granite, custom cabinetry and an island sized for a crowd. A clay-fired farmhouse sink, a separate vegetable sink and an extra-large walk-in pantry keep the room working.

Behind it, a butler's pantry and scullery run through to the laundry, gathering a second Sub-Zero and a dual-zone wine refrigerator on the way. That is the back of house that makes the front of house look effortless.

Two Primary Suites

One on each floor.

The main-level suite sits just off the living room, quiet and private, with an air tub and a custom walk-in shower. Upstairs, the second suite adds a media room, a walk-in closet built to a serious scale, and a spa bath with a soaking tub and a quartz shower. Two more bedrooms and a full bath finish that level.

On the third floor, a brand-new bunk room and loft with its own full bath, which the grandchildren will fight over and then refuse to leave.

Septic is already in the ground and architectural plans are already drawn for a detached garage with an apartment above, matched to the house. A carriage house or a multigenerational wing is a decision here, not a project.

The Math

Let's talk about the number.

Three and a half million in the middle of Laurens County makes some people blink. Fair reaction. So here is the arithmetic, out loud, rather than a paragraph asking you to trust us.

Build it

Seven private acres, twenty minutes from Simpsonville	$350,000
4,875 finished square feet at $600, what this level of finish actually costs	$2,925,000
Recreating the pool, the pavilion, the hardscape and the transplanted trees	$500,000
To reproduce it	$3,775,000

Before eighteen months of construction, and before the fifteen years you would wait for the planting to fill in.

Or move it closer to town

Take the same $3,495,000 twenty minutes up the road into Simpsonville and it buys half the house, half the land, half the pool and grounds, and it hands back the privacy on top of it. Same money, half of everything, and a neighbour close enough to wave at.

Or own this one

Finished, in thirty days, at $3,495,000.

The buyer here is not comparing this to another listing. They are comparing it to a decade of their own time.

The Gallery

Fifty frames, in walking order.

Painted columns, the length of the porch

The stair hall, straight through to the terrace

The Register

What is actually here.

Offered at	$3,495,000 · MLS 1600280
Bedrooms	4 plus a third-floor bunk loft
Baths	4 full, 1 half
Finished area	4,875 square feet across three levels
Land	6.77 acres, roughly 3.5 of them fenced and gated
Built	2001, reimagined through 2026
Primary suites	Two, one on the main level and one upstairs
Kitchen	Viking commercial gas cooktop with telescoping downdraft, 48-inch Sub-Zero, double Dacor convection ovens, two Fisher and Paykel dishwashers, granite, custom cabinetry
Back of house	Butler's pantry and scullery with a second Sub-Zero and a dual-zone wine refrigerator
Pool	Gunite with Pebble Tec, drystack rock waterfall, fountain, bench seat in the deep end, Paramount in-floor cleaning, two energy-efficient pumps
Pool pavilion	Full outdoor kitchen, vaulted tongue-and-groove ceiling, its own bath, gas piped for the grill
Outdoor fireplace	Drystack stone with gas assist, on the terrace
Porches	More than 1,900 square feet, covered, wrapping the rear and side
Grounds	Master plan by Graham Kimak Landscape Designs, installed in phases over close to two decades
Water features	Pool fountain plus two additional fountains and urns
Site work	Drainage, irrigation to house, pool, right pasture and road frontage, landscape lighting, 20,000 sq ft of sod
Entrance	Eight-foot painted brick wall, stone and brick columns, motorized gates with an app
Systems	Generac whole-house generator, three Trane systems installed in 2021 with dehumidifying technology, foam insulation, gas hot water, new security system, fiber internet
Exterior	Shingle and brick under a Grand Manor luxury shingle roof, Andersen windows, new gutters, boxing, soffit and fascia
Already permitted	Septic in place and architectural plans drawn for a detached garage with an apartment above, matched to the house
Restrictions	None. Bring the horse and the chickens.

The Drive

Where it sits.

Lake Rabon	5 min
Kawonu Golf Club	15 min
Simpsonville	20 min
GSP International	30 min
Downtown Greenville	40 min

Lake Rabon is five minutes away, with two and a half miles of trail around the water, a boat ramp and a fishing pier. Kawonu, the new private golf-only club designed by Andrew Green, is fifteen. Simpsonville handles the groceries and the school run. Greenville and the airport are close enough to be useful and far enough to be somebody else's problem.

Inquire

Come see it.

Private showings by appointment. The camera cannot carry the feeling of driving through the gates, which is the entire reason to make the drive. Tell us a little about what you are looking for and we will come back to you the same day.

Or call 864.561.7942