Exquisite Contemporary Residences in Prince Edward County.
From the foyer to the outdoor living space — twelve considered moments inside 698 Weese Road.
Set on a quiet road just outside Picton in Carrying Place, the principal residence is a newly designed home of roughly 3,800 square feet — 4 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, an attached double garage, built in 2021. The architecture is modern, contemporary, and quietly confident: a low-profile, discreet yet confident silhouette from the road that opens, inside, into double-height volumes, a north-facing curtain wall of triple-pane glass, a STUV wood-burning fireplace in the great room, automated electric Hunter Douglas blinds, a multi-camera security system, an exterior gas fireplace, porcelain tiles imported from CIOT, and chevron-pattern hardwood throughout. A short, considered walk to the water.
A generous, double-height arrival — chevron-pattern hardwood underfoot, a flow-through staircase rising through the centre of the home. The first room sets the grammar for everything that follows: confident, modern, unfussy. A coat for the door, light from above, the rest of the house opening in three directions.
The County's long horizontal light arrives uninterrupted. A north-facing curtain wall of imported triple-pane glass holds the room open to the landscape; chevron-pattern hardwood runs underfoot. At its centre, a large, efficient gas fireplace — paired with a designated air-equalising unit that keeps the building's interior climate stable across every season. A room that holds a long winter as well as it holds a long summer.
The working heart of the house. Custom wood millwork in a timeless, restrained finish — picture windows above the run, framing the sprawling land in every direction. A large family-friendly island in true Calcutta marble doubles as prep counter and gathering bench. A high-performance Fulcor gas range sits beneath a commercial-grade range hood — proper kitchen equipment, properly used. Chef's-quality finishes without the chef-restaurant rigidity.
Smart bespoke design throughout — including a wood-panelled walk-in pantry adjacent to the kitchen with integrated wine refrigeration, deep storage for the cookbooks and the everyday, and millwork detailed to match the main kitchen. Large floor-to-ceiling windows frame a Japanese maple and the home's zen gardens beyond.
Set adjacent to the double-height sitting room, the dining room collects light from two directions and warmth from the volume next door. The proportions are generous enough for a long table of twelve and quiet enough for a Sunday breakfast for two. High-output central air conditioning makes the August lunches as comfortable as the November ones.
Two flexible main-floor rooms created for future mobility — currently configured as an office and a reading room; combine them into a main-floor primary suite tomorrow. Full-height windows, hardwood throughout, and direct access to the adjacent full bathroom — single-storey living built into a multi-storey home.
A cantilevered room above the main floor — half library, half quiet observatory. Glazed on three sides and oriented north, so the sky pulls in the Aurora Borealis when it arrives. Built for music, for reading, and for the slow County ritual of watching the constellations turn overhead. The home's secret room, and probably its best.
A double-height room of generous proportions, glazed on the southern face, with French doors that walk directly out to the outdoor living space. The ceiling lifts to the rafters; the light moves through the room across the course of an afternoon. Equally at home as a quiet morning reading room and as a gathering space for an unrushed evening with friends.
Upstairs, the primary suite occupies the quiet end of the house — its own private wing, with a walk-through dressing room, a stone-clad ensuite, and windows that open onto the surrounding farmland. Chevron-pattern hardwood continues unbroken from the floor below.
A restrained palette of pale stone, warm oak, and unlacquered brass. Soaking tub set against the window; a walk-in shower built for two; underfloor heating in the ensuite. The kind of room you don't rush through.
Generous secondary bedrooms, each with its own character — one with a built-in window seat, one with a small private balcony, one quiet north-facing room equally suited to guests, children, or a second home office.
A covered A-frame structure anchors the outdoor living space — sheltering an outdoor gas fireplace built into a floor-to-roof cast-stone wall. A gas-line rough-in handles the BBQ. The proportions are deliberately generous: full-height shelter that reads as architecture, not a bolt-on patio. The kind of outdoor room that gets used in October, in March, and on the warmer side of a winter dinner party.
A second structure with a second life. Industrial shop, studio suite, sauna, deck — engineered to be useful for the next thirty years.
A 1,000-square-foot industrial shop paired with an 800-square-foot self-contained studio suite — and, between the two buildings, a full set of outdoor amenities. Independent entrance, separate services, finished to the same standard as the principal residence. Designed to flex with whatever chapter follows.
A purpose-built 1,000-square-foot industrial shop with soaring cathedral ceilings, fully insulated and currently configured as a working woodworking studio. An insulated, commercial-grade garage door with opener admits long material and large vehicles. 200-amp electrical service — including a dedicated 60-amp outlet ready for an EV charger or the high-draw demands of welders, kilns, and shop tools. A cozy wood stove handles winter; full hot-and-cold water service makes the room equally usable for trade or art.
Adjacent to the shop, an 800-square-foot self-contained studio suite — full bathroom, kitchenette, second wood stove, and direct patio access to the outdoor amenities between the buildings. Sleeps four to six comfortably. Equally suited to extended family, an artist in residence, or paying guests.
Between the two buildings, an articulated stone-gravel path and a pair of matching patios stitch the property together. Set within them: a wood-fired cabin sauna, a hot-and-cold outdoor shower, a Wi-Fi-controlled electric hot tub, and a central fire pit in a fire-safe placement. A composition designed to be lived in slowly — morning sauna, evening fire, year-round.
An 18-by-24-foot cedar dining deck — engineered on twelve-by-six-foot piles, hidden fasteners on a pressure-treated frame, the kind of build that lasts. Generous enough for a long outdoor table of twelve, low enough to feel part of the land. The surrounding grade is sculpted for efficient precipitation runoff.
The accessory building is engineered for chapters. A short-term rental, with the studio suite quietly paying its way. A licensed Airbnb or boutique bed-and-breakfast. A corporate retreat or wellness destination, with the sauna, hot tub, and outdoor amenities doing real work. An artist's studio. Guest quarters for arriving family. Or — most ambitiously — a principal residence with the rarest kind of optionality: a property built to be more than one thing, in turn or all at once.
The Particulars
Carrying Place, Prince Edward, K0K 1L0
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Two and a half hours east of Toronto, and a world apart.
What you are buying, when you buy on Weese Road, is not just a house — it is the County.
Two and a half hours from Toronto's Bloor Street, Prince Edward County opens like a quieter chapter of Canada's lakefront. Where Muskoka is granite and pine, the County is limestone, vineyard, dune and dairy. It is closer than the cottage, and stranger.
Once a Loyalist settlement, then a barley capital, now a working agricultural island that has become — almost accidentally — one of the most interesting culinary regions in the country. There are forty-odd wineries within thirty minutes of 698 Weese Road. There is a national park on its southern shore. There are towns small enough to walk in an afternoon and rich enough to keep you for a week.
Notable Mentions
Prince Edward County continues to draw international travel-press attention as one of Canada's most distinctive wine, food, and beach regions — within driving distance of Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, and Upstate New York.
Read coverage →A short, opinionated list. There are roughly forty wineries within half an hour of the door.
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The County's most internationally celebrated winemaker. Wood-fired pizzas on long benches in summer; pinot and chardonnay that have travelled to better tables than most of us have.
The purple barn. A foundational County estate, known for taut, mineral chardonnay and for being one of the early proofs that this strange limestone soil could make serious wine.
A larger, gracious property with a long view of the rows and a kitchen that has quietly become one of the County's better lunches. Estate-grown vidal, riesling, and an honest cabernet franc.
Small, quiet, and serious. A working dairy alongside the winery, which means the cheese on the tasting plate was made fifteen feet from where you're sitting. Sparkling wines worth the detour.
A father-and-son operation working with low-intervention winemaking and a fierce loyalty to County terroir. Pinot noir that drinks like a careful argument.
Sparkling specialists, working in the traditional method. Bright, crackling wines and one of the most pleasant patios on the peninsula — long tables, gravel underfoot, a wood-fired oven.
One of the most surprising culinary regions in Canada — and you can walk to most of it.
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The most ambitious project the County has seen in a generation — a nineteenth-century coaching inn restored to within an inch of its life, reopened in 2023 as a heritage hotel with two restaurants, a quiet bar, and a back garden. The dining room has very quickly become one of the most considered meals in the province.
The County's most photographed dining room — a lakeside extension of the Toronto Drake, with a kitchen that has matured into something more interesting than its origin story. Reservations essential in season.
Small, fiercely seasonal, and almost militantly local. A short, hand-written menu that changes weekly; one of the more thoughtful wine lists in the County.
A market, a bakery, and a daytime kitchen — the kind of place you stop in for a coffee and end up leaving with lunch, dinner, and a bottle of natural wine you've never heard of.
Heritage room, an honest menu of County produce and grilled meats, and a long bar that fills up after the wineries close. The County's de-facto living room.
Lunch under the trellis at the vineyard, with the rows in the distance and the lake visible through the gap. House-made pastas, estate wines, slow afternoons.
The shoreline at your door is one chapter — the great freshwater beach down the road is another.
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One of the largest baymouth barrier dune formations in the world — and arguably Canada's finest freshwater beach. Three distinct beaches, miles of soft sand, dunes that hold the warmth of the day well into the evening. Twenty minutes from the door.
A short walk from the property brings you to the Bay of Quinte — the protected inland water that Prince Edward County wraps around. Quieter than the open lake, warmer in summer, and ideal for paddling, sailing, or an end-of-day swim.
Picton, Bloomfield, Wellington — each different, each fifteen to twenty-five minutes away.
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The County's principal town. A heritage main street of red-brick storefronts, a working harbour, a year-round restaurant scene, and a regent theatre showing first-run films in a 1920s room. A twenty-minute drive from 698 Weese Road.
A single elegant street of antique shops, galleries, the County's best bakery, and a clutch of bed-and-breakfasts. The smallest of the three principal villages, and the easiest to fall in love with.
Right on the water, with a long beach, a marina, a row of restaurants spilling onto the sand, and the Drake Devonshire anchoring the western end. Closest of the three to 698 Weese Road — fifteen minutes by car, twenty-five by bicycle.
The County is not a summer place — it is a place that does four quiet, well-defined seasons.
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Cycling the Millennium Trail. Swimming from the dock at six in the evening. Long lunches at the wineries. The Sandbanks before nine in the morning, when the sand is still cool.
The single best time to be in the County. The vineyards bring in fruit, the kitchens shift to root vegetables and game, the light turns long and gold. October is the locals' favourite month for a reason.
The County is a year-round home, not a summer retreat. Ice fishing on the Bay of Quinte. Wood fires. Wineries that quietly stay open for those who know to call ahead. A landscape that goes silver and silent.
Cherry blossoms in Bloomfield. The opening weekend at the wineries. Asparagus at the farm stands. The slow, deliberate return of green to the rows.
Films of the County
Six short films from across Prince Edward County — wine country, the shoreline, the towns, and the rhythm of a year on the peninsula.
The Regions
The County is one place, but it isn't one place. Each region keeps its own character — its own coast, its own pace, its own answer to the question of why someone might come here.
Where wine country stretches wide
The County's wine belt — open fields, limestone soil, and the highest density of vineyards on the peninsula. Norman Hardie, Closson Chase, Stanners, and Hinterland all sit within a fifteen-minute drive.
Where the beach sets the pace
Home to Sandbanks Provincial Park and the County's most celebrated stretch of freshwater shoreline. Long days, soft sand, and the cottage rhythm of a summer that lasts.
Let the landscape lead the way
Quieter, hillier, and dotted with smaller wineries and cider houses. The drive itself is the point — winding back roads through orchards and farmland that change with every kilometre.
Where nature leads the way
Lake Ontario's open shoreline, lighthouses, and Point Petre Provincial Wildlife Area. The County's most remote feel, with views that empty the head.
Where the journey unfolds
The central agricultural heart of the County — working farms, roadside stands, and the slow, deliberate pace of growing things.
Small town charm, thoughtfully done
A single elegant street of antique shops, galleries, the County's best bakery, and a clutch of bed-and-breakfasts. Walk it in an afternoon, return to it for a weekend.
Small town, big shoreline energy
Right on the water, with a long beach, a marina, a row of restaurants spilling onto the sand, and the Drake Devonshire anchoring the western end. The closest of the three villages to 698 Weese Road.
Wide skies, winding roads
The northern entry to the County — broader landscapes, the Carrying Place causeway, and the Loyalist Parkway. 698 Weese Road sits in this region.
Find your rhythm off the beaten path
The County's quietest region. Open fields, working farms, and a slower side of an already slow place.
A hub with room to wander
The County seat. A heritage main street of red-brick storefronts, the year-round restaurant scene, a working harbour, and the Regent Theatre. Twenty minutes from the door.
Plan Your Visit
The County is an easy weekend getaway from Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, and Upstate New York. For full event calendars, accommodation directories, regional itineraries, and seasonal guides, the official tourism resource is Visit The County.
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