6477 Ware Neck Rd, Gloucester, VA 23061

Why this home stands out

Properties built in 1875 that still stand with 4,238 square feet of usable space are genuinely uncommon anywhere in Virginia, and in Gloucester they're a different category entirely. This is not a house that was designed to look old — it is old, with the bones, the proportions, and the quiet gravitas that only 150 years of continuous habitation can produce. Five bedrooms give you flexibility that newer construction at this square footage rarely delivers.

WARE NECK and the Gloucester real estate market

Ware Neck is a rural peninsula in Gloucester County that juts into the tidal waters of the Ware River and Mobjack Bay, and life here moves at a rhythm that the rest of coastal Virginia has largely forgotten. Gloucester itself sits at the northern tip of the Virginia Peninsula, connected to the broader Hampton Roads region by the Coleman Bridge over the York River. The county seat, Gloucester Courthouse, anchors a small historic district with independent shops, a farmers market, and a community feel that bigger cities spend millions trying to manufacture. Ware Neck Road is one of those long, canopied rural routes where neighbors know each other and the land still has meaning — the kind of corridor that anchors homes for sale in Gloucester, Virginia for buyers who are done compromising on space and serenity.

What's nearby

Gloucester Courthouse Village is roughly ten minutes away and covers your everyday essentials: a Food Lion, a Walmart Supercenter, local pharmacies, and a handful of well-regarded local restaurants. Gloucester Point, just before the Coleman Bridge, puts you at the York River waterfront with public beach access and the Virginia Institute of Marine Science. Williamsburg — with its dining, shopping, and Colonial Williamsburg campus — is about 35 minutes west. The bridge crossing into Yorktown takes roughly 25 minutes and opens up the full York County commercial corridor.

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