When the DeHaases go camping, they pack up all their stuff and hike to a site in their own backyard.

Their woodsy 12¾ acres at 875 Plainfield Pike, on the border of Clayville and North Scituate, has a campground and lots of trails created by Tony DeHaas who is a four-wheel-drive enthusiast. The acreage includes a baseball field, in-ground pool, a small pond, an orchard with cherry and peach trees, and a vegetable garden.

Oh, and there’s a chicken coop. It has three chickens, one is part Rhode Island Red and the other two are Barred Plymouth Rocks.

“I love the yard,” says Tony DeHaas. “It is so peaceful out here.”

Tony DeHaas is relocating to Maine. He and his wife Dee are selling for $469,000 their three-bedroom, which was once a center hall Colonial circa mid-18th century. But it has had a number of additions, and it is now considered a cape.

The house, which sits on former farm land, was believed to have been built in the 1740s by Thomas Angell, who sailed to America from Bristol, England, on the same ship as Roger Williams. According to Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas Angell, by Avery F. Angell, 875 Plainfield Pike was built by Angell for his son Jonathan.

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The oldest section of the house supplies an example of the early Colonial style with a steeply pitched, side-gabled roof and small windows. It has a second floor, center stone chimney and the signature steep staircase in the small front hallway. Some of the symmetrical design remains with a dining room and living room on either side of the center foyer.

The original wood clapboard has been covered with vinyl siding; during the house’s some 260-year-history, several alterations have occurred. Among the most notable is the conversion in the 1990s of a barn into a three-bay garage. The garage fits two cars, and it has a smaller area with a separate door that opens to space big enough to store the DeHaases’ four-wheel-drive vehicles and lawn equipment.

Above the garage is a finished room. A former owner used it as an office. It has storage space, new windows, and heating and air-conditioning that is on a separate zone.

The DeHaases have converted the bonus room into a place to work-out. Dee DeHaas says. “When people stay over they stay in this room.”

A door on the side of the garage leads into a roomy breezeway, which has a sliding glass door. It’s big enough for a small desk, love seat and a couple of chairs.

“We used it as a play room when our children were young,” says Dee DeHaas, who has plans to turn it into a mud room or small office.

Off the breezeway is entry to a long, narrow butler’s pantry that houses the laundry facilities, dishwasher and a sink.

Above the counter covered with Formica are glass-front cabinets and there’s additional storage below and on the opposite wall.

In the kitchen are matching cabinets to the butler’s pantry. The room has a three-sink design, black-and-white checker-board linoleum floor and enough room for a table and chairs. Beyond the kitchen is a full bathroom with a wall of built-in drawers and cabinets. There’s a separate shower and tub.

According to Dee DeHaas, a woodworker custom made the cabinets and the built-ins in nearly all of the rooms. “The cabinets all have beveled edges and the doors are inset.” Tony DeHaas adds “This sink [the one in the butler’s pantry] empties into a separate well and not into the septic system.”

The dining room and living room boast hardwood floors, molding around the doors and windows typical of a Colonial. There’s a wood-burning stove in the dining room that the DeHaases say puts off enough heat to keep the house cozy in the winter. Tony DeHaas chops and splits wood from the many trees on his land.

Off the dining room is the master suite, which has a half-bath, hardwood floors and double closets. The windows offer a view of the backyard.

The living room has a working fireplace and built-in shelves. An exposed beam on the ceiling is evidence of the house’s historic roots. A door leads to a den with a vaulted ceiling, fireplace, two walls of bead-board, and built-in shelves over cabinets on three walls. The fourth wall has sliding-glass doors that open to the yard.

The den was added in the late1990s, and the DeHaases use it as a library/study/game room. “In the winter we light a fire, and the kids come in, and they do their homework,” says Dee DeHaas. “It’s a little different than the rest of the house because it’s open and large.”

On the top floor, there’s storage under the eaves, two bedrooms and a full bathroom. With six-feet ceilings, the rooms are best suited for children or a tiny adult.

One of the bedrooms has built-in drawers and cabinets; the other has a built-in desk.

“This is different than most older homes. It’s very sturdy,” says Dee DeHaas. “It’s an old house and has the character and the charm of one, but it has the advantages of a new house with central air-conditioning, central vac system, 200 amp electrical and a water filtration system.”

The three-bedroom house with an attached 2½-car garage and finished room above at 875 Plainfield Pike in Scituate sits on 12 ¾ acres and offers 2,624 square feet of living space. It has oil heat; the water heater is electrical. The selling price is $469,000; the taxes are $4,530. The listing real estate agent is Lucy Heelon of Keller-Williams Realty, (401) 785-1700, ext. 482. l.heelon@kw.com; www.lucyheelon.com. An open house is schedule for tomorrow from noon to 2 p.m.How to submit a House of the Week

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