905 Royal Oak Close
www.LiveInLittleNeck.com

Yes, the winter Caribbean cruise was fabulous, but you’re so glad to be almost home. As you drive north on Little Neck Road, your blood pressure eases a bit and your anticipation of arriving at 905 Royal Oak Close in Virginia Beach’s Middle Plantation rises. You know that your new home has one of the most creative floor plans on the Little Neck Peninsula.

You park your car in the oversized attached two car garage, but want to make the “grand entrance” at the front. You are home! Gleaming hardwood floors surround you. To the left are your living & dining rooms, and to the right is the spacious family room with the soaring cathedral ceiling.

You stroll to the left through the living and dining rooms and into the kitchen. Looking through the large doors the serene privacy of the private back yard & pool welcomes you. To your right is the large family room which completes the circular & very usable floor plan. After that long flight back home from the sunny warmth of the Caribbean, you fill your wine goblet with chilled Chardonnay and step out onto the deck. The pool is covered for the season, but visions of brilliant blue skies & hot days tell you that the pool opening is around the corner.

Heading towards the staircase to the 2nd floor, you again marvel at the flexibility and function the floor plan of this custom designed home offers.

Upstairs you walk toward the master suite where you gaze out the large windows at the secluded backyard & pool view. The updated master bath and walk in closet greet you. Unpacking can wait. So can doing the laundry!

You quickly check on the three other bedrooms on the 2nd floor, and then return to the kitchen where you refill your glass and plop down in front of the fireplace in your family room. You make a mental note to go check on the 5th bedroom, over the garage, but for now enjoying the crackling fire, the wine, and your new home is foremost on the agenda.

While the beaches of the Caribbean isles were terrific, there’s no place like home in Virginia Beach…especially in your new home in the quiet privacy of the Little Neck Peninsula, Middle Plantation, and 905 Royal Oak Close.

Life indeed is grand.


Additional Information

LITTLE NECK. It’s a weird name to start with. But let’s look at LITTLE NECK’s history first….

Thousands of years ago, back in 13000BC – 8000BC, Paleo-Indians dwelled in our area. No one knows where they went. Then the Algonquin tribes were here from about 8000BC to 500AD; these too were lost to history. But in the early 17th century, John Smith and the Jamestown settlers wrote about the Chesopeians, members of the lost Algonquians. The tip of Little Neck was referred to as a trading point, where the Indians and setters traded. Thus Trading Point Lane got its name.

An early Jamestowner wrote about the banks of what’s now the Lynnhaven River “that God never fashioned a better place for man’s habitat”. Was he ever right!

As more folks came to the colonies, land grants were given, farms were developed, fishing and oystering began in earnest. Common names then were the Keelings, Woodhouses, Strattons, Wilkinsons. A trip to Norfolk then could be an all day affair!

Then in the 1920s, automobiles and paved roads opened Little Neck to summer visitors from Norfolk. Summer cottages were developed. In the 30s there were oyster houses catering to tourists: off W. Little Neck Rd, on Keeling Cove, at the end of Hurds Rd, and at Poplar Cove. There were potato farms where Sea Breeze is now. Oysters, jonquils, and chickens were harvested near Dix Inlet. Redwood may have housed a dairy farm. Secretive stills were nestled away in the woods. Kids romped through what is now Middle Plantation hunting.

Post World War II, development picked up in earnest with the beginning of Kings Grant. Hundreds and hundreds of affordable homes inched north from Virginia Beach Boulevard. Tree lined Little Neck Road spawned developments like Sea Breeze Farm, Redwood Farm, Middle Plantation, and Bishopsgate well into the late 80s and early 90s. Little Neck was pretty much built out at that point, with only a few small areas suitable for building. LITTLE NECK had become a magnet attracting professionals, medical care specialists, executives, managers, and military officers and civil servants.

LITTLE NECK today is one of the most popular and sought after neighborhoods in Virginia Beach, and by default in South Hampton Roads. It is a haven from the commercialization that has consumed so much of the rest of the area. Aside from the 7-11, a Little Necker has to drive 3-4 miles to shop. There is no through traffic since we are the LITTLE NECK PENINSULA; this is a destination, not a stop along the way.

A very family oriented community; we are home to six churches representing most of the main line denominations. There are public parks scattered throughout with tennis courts, swings, and so on for all ages. The Little Neck Swim & Racquet Club is a year round tennis facility and a seasonal mecca for swimmers and sunners of all ages. A bike bath & sidewalk combination can take one from the Boulevard all the way to the end of Little Neck Road, nearly 5 miles. Bikers, runners, and walkers are seen constantly. Station 20 – home of our first responders – houses our local firefighters and EMTs right on Little Neck Road.

We are blessed with two top notch elementary schools, Kings Grant which serves southern Little Neck kids, and nationally recognized Kingston which serves the rest. Students matriculate up through Lynnhaven Middle and First Colonial High, both highly ranked members of Virginia Beach’s excellent school system.

While our LITTLE NECK peninsula is quiet, tranquil, non-commercial, family oriented, and safe, we are only minutes from Town Center, the Interstate, the Norfolk airport, the oceanfront, Home Depot, Harris Teeter, and Lynnhaven Mall. A quick retreat back to LITTLE NECK is always welcome after a foray into the busy side of Virginia Beach.

If it’s an urban life style you need, then head to Norfolk or Town Center. If it’s a busy road bounded by strip malls and gas stations, head to Great Neck. If it’s the ocean, beach, tourist traffic, and expensive homes, head to the north end gold coast. If it’s new homes, small lots, few trees, and 9 foot ceilings, head to southern Virginia Beach or Chesapeake.

But if it’s family values, security, serenity, peace, quiet, good neighbors, great quality of life, excellent public schools, and a perfect lifestyle, then LITTLE NECK is fundamentally your best choice….and it could be your only choice.

Become one today. A LITTLE NECKER!

Our thanks to Pete Costenbader for his historical research!