Detached Homes for Sale in Whitby

Downtown Whitby and Port Whitby hold the pre-war houses: two-storey brick with tall windows, some already renovated, some still on knob-and-tube and original plumbing. Lynde Creek west of Brock Street and Blue Grass Meadows east of it were built largely in the 1960s and 1970s, so expect bungalows, side-splits and four-level back-splits with attached single garages and mature trees. Pringle Creek mixes those with 1980s two-storeys around its creek valley. Rolling Acres, on the Oshawa side south of Rossland Road, is mostly 1980s and 1990s two-storey family houses with double garages. Williamsburg and Taunton North north of Taunton Road are the 1990s and 2000s belt with smaller lots and larger floor plans. Brooklin has a heritage core of century homes on Baldwin Street and Cassels Road surrounded by subdivisions from the mid-1990s onward, and its newest phases are still being finished. Rural Whitby north of Brooklin is farmhouses, estate lots and a few hobby farms.

Creek and ravine lots are common here because Lynde Creek, Pringle Creek and Corbett Creek cut through the town, and land near them can fall inside areas regulated by the conservation authority, CLOCA, which affects decks, pools and additions. Ask for the regulation map before you fall for the backyard. Houses near the CN and CP corridors, the 401 or the 412 need a visit at rush hour with the windows open. In the 1960s and 1970s subdivisions look at the age of the roof, windows, furnace and the electrical panel, and ask whether the basement has ever taken water. In Rural Whitby you are buying the well and the septic system as much as the house, so make the offer conditional on a water test and a septic inspection. Anywhere in town, a finished basement apartment needs the permits to match, and a survey saves arguments about fences and sheds later.