Currituck Waterfowl Homestead – Pond, Club Room, 10 minutes to Outer Banks

A Currituck homestead, ten minutes from the Outer Banks

Waterfield Place sits on five quiet acres in mainland Currituck (the stretch locals call a sportsman's paradise) a ten-minute drive from the northern Outer Banks beaches, with the H2OBX Waterpark just up the road and six golf courses within 15 miles. It's a family home built by a duck hunter, and it still has his easy, unhurried feel: a place to spread out, a base camp for hunting, golfing, or hitting the beaches, and a cozy spot to settle in for a while.

THE HOME
The house sleeps seven across three bedrooms and two baths. The main-floor bedroom has a queen and a twin, with its own adjoining bath. Upstairs, one bedroom has a queen and the other two twins; those two share a second bath. The living room and kitchen are roomy and made for gathering, and a glassed-in sun porch runs along the front of the house, making it the perfect place for morning coffee as the sun comes up, or an afternoon in the light.

THE GARAGE
Across the drive is the Garage, our club room and the heart of the property. It has a bar, a kitchenette, a half bath, an outdoor grill, and a row of rocking chairs in the window. It's where everyone tends to end up: come back from the beach or the blind, fire up the grill, and settle in without tracking through the house.

THE GROUNDS
The five acres hold a stocked pond with a fountain, a carport, and plenty of room to park. After a day outdoors, it's an easy place to come back to.

A LITTLE ABOUT THE PLACE
Waterfield Place was built by Herbert Lee Waterfield, a Currituck duck hunter who reclaimed this ground, put the house on it, and dug the pond that's still out back. The building across the drive he called the Garage, though it was always more than a garage. It was where he kept a bar, his decoys, and his hunting gear, and where friends turned up on cold afternoons. He left the door open and the bar stocked so anyone passing through could stop in, and he set the rocking chairs in the window facing the drive, because that's the direction company came from. The house has stayed in the family since, and we've been slow about changing things. The decoys and old prints are still up, and the same easy welcome with them.

A few honest notes, so the place is what you're picturing
- We're on the Currituck mainland, not the oceanfront. The beaches are a ten-minute drive. It's close to sun and sand, but it's a drive, not a walk.
- This is a real, lived-in family home, full of character. If you like somewhere with history and heart, it's very much that.
- The pond is pretty and not fenced. Please keep an eye on little ones near the water.
- It's quiet out here: five acres, dark skies, birdsong, the odd mosquito in summer. The peace is the point.
- The Waterfields still own Waterfield Place, and a local co-host lives nearby for anything you need while you're here.