A hundred-year-old mountain estate, comprehensively reborn, where a historic inn, a private lake, and a renovated course share 1,100 acres.
A hundred-year-old mountain estate, comprehensively reborn, where a historic inn, a private lake, and a renovated course share 1,100 acres.
High Hampton, on Highway 107 in Cashiers at thirty-six hundred feet, carries the deepest provenance on the plateau, a National Register property that was a single family's mountain farm for ninety-five years. A 2017 acquisition and a renovation completed in 2021 restored the 1922 inn, reworked the golf course, and opened new homesites. The result is a hybrid: resort guests at the inn, club members, and residential owners sharing eleven hundred acres around Whiteside Mountain and a thirty-five-acre private lake, which gives it a year-round energy that purely private clubs lack.
Homes start lower than the plateau's gated clubs, from roughly $600K into the seven figures, reflecting the resort-mixed character. Membership terms are not published. For a multigenerational family that values legacy and a Blackberry Farm sensibility over status signaling, and does not mind sharing the porch with inn guests, High Hampton is the story address here.
The 1922 resort, re-tuned: Fazio redid the golf, the inn kept its manners.
The Fazio-reimagined par 71, reopened in 2021, that made a century-old resort course matter again. Dahlia beds and mountain views included.
The inn's lake for a canoe or a swim off the dock, or Silver Run Falls down the road when the water calls louder.
Cashiers Farmers Market for provisions, the crossroads shops for everything else.
Dinner at The Orchard in its farmhouse, or the inn's own dining room when the porch rockers have already won the evening.
Panthertown Valley from the Cold Mountain Gap trailhead, two and a half miles round trip to Schoolhouse Falls, then home over the Cashiers crossroads.
Inventory inside these gates moves quietly, and the best of it often trades before it is broadly marketed. Ask us what is available in High Hampton this week, including what has not hit the portals.
Before you tour a single home, an Advisory Conversation tells you whether High Hampton actually fits the life you are trying to build, and what the move is worth under the new Carolina tax math.