4-Bedroom Home for Sale in East Cobb — 471 Surrey Place, Marietta
Most of what makes a house worth buying can be changed. Counters, carpet, paint, paneling, fixtures. What cannot be changed is where the house sits and what is behind it. 471 Surrey Place sits at the end of a cul-de-sac in Sope Creek Farms with a rear property line that runs into woods instead of into someone else’s back wall, and that is the reason to look at it.
The Lot: A Third of an Acre With Nothing Behind It
The lot is 0.3653 acres, measuring 104 by 153 feet. The house sits at the terminus of the cul-de-sac, which means no through traffic past the front of the property. Behind it, the rear line opens to a mature tree buffer rather than to a neighboring structure. Deer and rabbits are regular visitors to the back lot.
The rear yard itself is level and partially enclosed with chain-link fencing, with a mature magnolia and a dense band of trees along the property line. In a market where a third of an acre usually comes with a neighbor’s siding forty feet from your back door, this configuration is the property’s real asset.
The House: 1,920 Square Feet Across Three Levels
This is a 1973 colonial with 1,920 square feet per public records, four bedrooms, two full baths, and a half bath. The main level carries nine-foot ceilings and hardwood floors through the entry, formal living room, kitchen, and family room.
The kitchen counters were updated in 2024 in white quartz, paired with white raised-panel cabinetry and a double sink set under a wide window that faces the trees. It is an eat-in kitchen with a pantry, open to the family room, with a separate dining room alongside.
The family room is finished in full wood paneling with a brick masonry fireplace, a raised hearth, and a wood mantel. French doors open from it to the screened porch.
Upstairs, four bedrooms, each with a ceiling fan and crown molding. The hall bath tile and bathtub were updated in 2012. Below, a full daylight basement with both interior and exterior entry and walk-out access at grade. It is unfinished and is not counted in the 1,920 square feet, which means the expansion capacity is entirely upside for whoever buys it.
The Screened Porch, Added 2018
Added in 2018 and built under a vaulted ceiling with a ceiling fan and indoor/outdoor carpet, the screened porch opens directly off the family room and looks out over the wooded rear lot. It is the room that does the most work in person and the hardest one to photograph, because what makes it good is the absence of anything to look at.
A flagstone walkway to the front entry was installed the same year.
Who This House Is For
This home is offered as-is, and the pricing reflects that. Carpet in the bedrooms, wood paneling in the family room, and an unfinished basement are all part of the picture. That combination will not suit a buyer who needs to move into something finished.
It will suit a buyer who understands where the money in a house actually goes. The structure, the lot, the position on the street, the 2018 porch, and the 2024 kitchen counters are the expensive parts, and they are done or they are sound. The cosmetic layer is the affordable part, and it is left for the next owner to do in their own taste rather than paid for in the purchase price.
It will also suit a buyer who already knows East Cobb and is looking for a specific pocket rather than shopping the whole metro.
The Neighborhood
Sope Creek Farms sits south of Old Canton Road in the 30068 zip. Fullers Park is under a mile, with baseball and turf fields, tennis courts, an indoor gym, and trails, and Robinson Field is under a mile as well. East Cobb Park is roughly a mile and a half.
For everyday errands, Pavilions at Eastlake and East Lake Shopping Center on Roswell Road are about two miles out with a Kroger, and Providence Square is about two and a half miles with Sprouts, Home Depot, and TJ Maxx. European Deli Marietta is about a mile and a half. Assigned schools are Eastvalley Elementary, East Cobb Middle, and Wheeler High.
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The porch and the tree line are the two things that do not translate through a screen. If the lot is what you have been looking for, come stand in the back yard.
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Listed exclusively by Valerie Gonzalez with Vesta Consulting Group at Keller Williams Realty Intown Atlanta