At A Glance

A 1937 cottage that came with a compound.

One thirteen-hundred-square-foot main cottage with a brick fireplace and skylights. A separate in-law addition past the garage. A fully separate studio. A fully fenced 5,700 square foot lot with a deck built for summer and fruit trees that already produce. Three structures, one address, eighty-nine years of patina.

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3 Structures

Property Type Single Family

Fencing Fully Enclosed

Heating Forced Air

Neighborhood Eagle Hill

A First Look

Walk up the path. The cottage, the porch, the trees.

The pictures tell the truth of the place: a small blue cottage that has been loved, a brick fireplace inside, a deck for summer dinners, and a yard that produces fruit. A private walk-through is the way to see how the in-law unit and the studio sit behind the garage.

The front of 310 Oak Ave from the sidewalk, a white picket fence in the foreground and a crepe myrtle in full white bloom arching over the wooden front steps — The crepe myrtle in summer bloom. The white picket fence has held the corner since long before the tree.

The gabled front porch of 310 Oak Ave, painted white with two columns framing a deep red front door, blue clapboard siding, and wooden steps down to the path — The red door. Behind it, the cottage opens into the original 1937 floor plan.

The living room at 310 Oak Ave with a white-painted brick fireplace, hardwood floors, an upholstered armchair, a piano along the left wall, and bookshelves — Inside. A white brick fireplace, hardwood floors, and the piano that lives along the wall.

The side approach to 310 Oak Ave from the path, a tall hedge of dark green ivy on the left, a low boxwood border, mature succulents, and the porch and red door on the right — The side path. A tall hedge on one shoulder, succulents at your feet, the porch and the red door at the end.

A tight crop of the wooden front steps of 310 Oak Ave with the white picket fence and crepe myrtle blossoms framing the entry — The wooden steps, in close. The fence, the blossoms, the corner.

The deep red front door of 310 Oak Ave, framed by white porch columns, the gable peak overhead, and the blue clapboard siding behind it — The red door, in close. White columns, blue clapboard, the gable above.

“A bonus room some would use as a home office or third bedroom. And there is a completely separate studio.”

The Cottage

A 1937 floor plan that quietly grew.

The main cottage is small on paper and large in practice. One thousand seventy square feet, three bedrooms, two baths, a fireplace at the heart of the living room, and a kitchen sized for real cooking with a view onto the fully fenced backyard. Skylights pull daylight down into the older rooms; a ceiling fan handles the warm afternoons; a forced-air furnace handles the rest.

The listing calls one of the rear rooms a bonus room. Some buyers will read it as a home office. Some will read it as a third bedroom. Either reading is correct, because the original 1937 plan has been quietly worked over the decades to give the household choices.

Past the garage, the lot opens up. There is an in-law style addition with its own privacy and a fully separate studio sitting at the back. The deck off the laundry room is sized for a real BBQ. The yard holds fruit trees that already produce. None of this is staged for an open house. All of it has been used.

The In-Law

A Second Front Door

A completely separate in-law style addition past the garage. Privacy from the main cottage, rental income or family room, you decide.

The Studio

A Third Structure

Beyond the in-law sits the studio. Separate from the cottage, separate from the in-law. Three rooflines on one lot.

The Yard

Deck And Fruit Trees

A large BBQ deck off the laundry room, a fully fenced lot, and fruit trees already at producing age.

The Details

What makes it singular.

Brick Fireplace

A white-painted brick fireplace anchors the living room. The chimney rises through the gable, visible from the street.

In-Law Addition

A completely separate in-law style addition sits past the garage. Privacy from the cottage. Flexible use, kept all on the same parcel.

Separate Studio

A third structure on the lot. A studio of its own, separated entirely from both the cottage and the in-law unit.

Bonus Room

Off the main floor plan, a flexible bonus room. The listing notes it serves equally well as a home office or a third bedroom.

BBQ Deck

A large deck off the laundry room, sized for summer cooking and weekend gatherings. The lot is fully fenced.

Fruit Trees

Mature fruit trees on the lot. The kind of detail that takes a generation to put in and an afternoon to enjoy.

Skylights

Added during one of the cottage's quiet renovations. They pull natural light into rooms whose original 1937 windows could not.

Estimate Your Payment

A private estimate, running quietly.

Adjust the numbers below to see an estimated monthly principal and interest payment on 310 Oak Avenue. A starting point for the conversation, not a quote.

Down Payment 20%

Interest Rate 6.5%

Loan Term

Estimated Monthly Payment

$6,571

Principal and interest only. Property taxes and insurance are not included. Based on a list price of $1,299,000.

The Neighborhood

Eagle Hill, as it lives.

Oak Avenue runs along the western edge of Eagle Hill, one of Redwood City's quietest residential pockets. Downtown Redwood City sits a short drive east, restaurants and shopping all within reach. The Sequoia Station Caltrain stop and the 101 corridor put San Francisco and the rest of the Peninsula on a sensible commute.

The Mt. Carmel and Mid-Peninsula neighborhoods sit on the other side. The listing's own suggestion is to walk over to Harry's Hofbrau after the open house. That is the kind of street this is.

Minutes from downtown Redwood City and Sequoia Station Caltrain

Three Structures.
One Address.