Main floor
The front room
Gas fire, the good sofa, and the window seat everyone ends up reading in.
Gas fire, 55-inch television, board games in the window seat
701 Old York Drive · Richmond, Virginia
One house, let by the week, with the whole bill on the page.
No listing-site headline rate. Put your dates in below and the house prices every night of the stay, adds the cleaning and the 14% Virginia lodging tax, and tells you what one night actually costs. If the nights are gone it says which ones and offers you the next week that is not.
- Sleeps
- 8Four bedrooms
- Bathrooms
- 1½One full, one half
- Winter from
- $185Two-night minimum
- Summer
- $315Saturday to Saturday
The stay sheet
What your dates cost, night by night
Every night is priced on its own: the season band it falls in, plus the weekend uplift on a Friday or a Saturday outside the summer weeks. Then the cleaning, then the tax on both. The big figure is what leaves your account.
Put an arrival date in and the house will price every night of the stay.
Before you ask
What this house has not got
Ten things a listing photograph will not tell you. Every one of them has cost us a booking, and every one of them has saved somebody a bad week.
- A dishwasher
- The kitchen is the 1948 one. Double sink, a wooden rack, and eight of every plate and glass.
- A second full bathroom
- One full bath on the main floor and a half bath off the kitchen, in a house that sleeps eight. Mornings need a rota.
- Air conditioning in the attic room
- A window unit that holds 78°F until about three in the afternoon in July, and a ceiling fan after that.
- Step-free entry
- Four steps to the porch and two into the hall. Three of the four bedrooms are on one floor once you are in.
- Off-street parking for a second car
- One space in the alley. The rest is free street parking, and on a Friday night you may be two houses down.
- A silent 5:40 in the morning
- A freight train crosses the trestle four blocks away most mornings. You hear it with the windows open.
- A pool, a hot tub, or water you can see
- None of the three. The river is a fourteen-minute drive and the beach is over two hours.
- A strong AT&T signal
- One bar at the back of the house. Wi-Fi calling works; the fibre is 300 Mbps and we test it every changeover.
- A high chair
- We lend a travel cot if you ask a week ahead. No high chair, and the dining chairs have no straps.
- Anyone coming in while you are here
- We clean before you arrive and after you leave. No mid-stay visits unless something breaks.
The rooms
Four bedrooms, a porch and a 1948 kitchen
Photographed as they are on a changeover morning, with what is in each one written under it. All 9 rooms.
Main floor
The kitchen
A 1948 kitchen with a new gas range in it. No dishwasher, and we are not putting one in.
Gas range, no dishwasher, coffee: a filter machine and a stovetop pot
Main floor
The dining room
Round table, eight chairs, and the only room where all eight of you fit at once.
Seats eight, extra leaf in the sideboard, best desk in the house
Main floor
The screened porch
The best room in the house from late April to October. No heat in it, so useless in January.
Table for six, swing seat, mosquito screens replaced in 2025
Main floor · sleeps 2
Bedroom one, the back bedroom
Queen bed, main floor, the quietest room in the house.
Queen · blackout blinds · central air
Main floor · sleeps 2
Bedroom two, the street bedroom
Queen bed, main floor, two windows onto Old York Drive.
Queen · bay window · central air
How far it really is
Measured, twice, with a car and a watch
Drive times from this door, not from the middle of the city, and at the hour you would actually go. The whole list, including the beach.
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6min drive
The grocery on Lombardy
6 minutes by car, 19 on foot. Open until midnight.
Measured on a Tuesday at 10am
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9min drive
Carytown and the Byrd Theatre
9 minutes by car. Parking is the hard part, not the distance.
Measured on a Saturday at 2pm, parking not included
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14min drive
The river at Pony Pasture
14 minutes by car. Flat rocks, class I water, and no lifeguard at any time.
Measured on a Sunday at 11am
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11min drive
Maymont
11 minutes by car. Free, and the best two hours in the city with children.
Measured on a Saturday at 10am
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8min walk
The bus stop on Allison Street
8 minutes on foot. Every 15 minutes into town, $1.50, exact change or the app.
Walked at an ordinary pace, twice
Guests, afterwards
What people say when they get home
6 ratings and the longer accounts people let us print. We publish the four-star ones about the attic room in July as well.
The figure on the website was the figure on the card. Ten nights, the cleaning, the tax, all of it, and nothing turned up at the end that we had not already seen.
We took the winter rate expecting a compromise and got a warm house with a fire and the city to ourselves. The train at half past five is real. We slept through it after the first night.
They told us to leave the attic room empty rather than sell us a bed in it. Nobody in twenty years of renting houses has talked us out of anything.
The price we were quoted in March was the price we paid in October, to the dollar, tax included.
One space in the alley and free street parking after that. Said on the site, true on the night.
The attic room is warm in July, exactly as warm as they say it is. Everything else was better than the photographs.
From the house
What we have fixed, and what it changed on your bill
Written when something happens to the house, not on a schedule. Everything we have written.
7 Sep 2026
The attic window unit gave up, and what we put in
The old unit held 82°F on a bad day. The new one holds 78°F and costs us $41 a month more to run.
15 Sep 2026
Two weeks in July came free
A booking fell through for the third and the tenth. They are back on the calendar at the ordinary summer rate.