Classic elegance and in less than 15 minutes from your dock you?re in the open waters of beautiful Charlotte Harbor via the Ponce de Leon Park inlet. This custom 1998 PGI Homes, Inc. home has 3 large bedrooms, 2 full baths (the large guest bath also has direct access to the pool area). There?s a huge den with double glass-paned doors at the foyer which has crown molding and built-in book shelves. There?s a formal dining room and living room with soaring cathedral ceilings and dual skylights for natural lighting and an electric fireplace (also plumbed for propane). The seller was told that the soaring coral rock fireplace surround wall is from some of the last coral legally taken from Key West reefs. The lanai summer kitchen has a sink and an electric grill. There?s a great view from the living room through the lanai across the pool & spa to your 70? + concrete dock and boat lift. The dock has light, power and water. The 3-car garage is nearly 1,000 square feet (plenty of room for your toys), and has storage closets with additional attic storage available. There's also a wheelchair lift and a service door to the rear side yard. There are hurricane shutters for the entire home with a combination of accordion shutters, opaque shutters, and rolldown shutters for the lanai and pool-side bedrooms, dining room and den & front entry making storm prep easy and quick. The oversized screened pool enclosure was repaired and rescreened in the spring of 2023; a new pool pump was added in 2020. The pool / spa heat pump was added in 2019 and the pool light was replaced in February of 2021. The dishwasher, convection air-fryer microwave / hood-fan and range were added in April of 2023. Saint Andrews South Country Club is passed by on the way to this beautiful home. Fishermen?s Village is approximately 2.5 miles away and historic downtown Punta Gorda with its shopping and numerous restaurants is less than 3.5 miles from your door step. The new Sunseeker Resort is opening in December 2023 adding an additional 19 restaurants to the area and a public boardwalk and various other amenities only 4.5 miles away. Check out the photography for more room specific details. Note that all furniture, art and decorative figurines as seen on site are available to the buyer with the exception of the framed bird paintings in the den.