Signage and entrance features for Lockhart Green, a 14-home subdivision under development off River Road in southeastern Goochland County. (Images courtesy Colonial Homecrafters)
A longtime local homebuilder is marking a half-century in business with a new subdivision it’s developing along the River Road corridor in southeastern Goochland County.
Colonial Homecrafters Ltd. is starting construction on the first of 14 houses that will make up Lockhart Green, a roughly 14-acre subdivision under development off River Road between Rivergate and Wickham Glen.
The Henrico-based firm has sold two lots so far after completing the roads and underground utilities. The firm purchased the land in 2023 and started clearing timber on the site about a year ago.
An aerial view from the 2021 listing shows the site in relation to the nearby Rivergate community. (Image courtesy Metropolitan Real Estate)
The homes at Lockhart Green will range from 4,200 to 5,300 square feet in size, with prices starting at $2.7 million. Working off five home plans from the company’s catalog that buyers can customize, the houses will have four to six bedrooms, 5½ to six bathrooms and emphasize first-floor living, with primary suites, offices and laundry on the ground floor.
The homes will include zero-entry showers, two- or three-car garages and indoor-outdoor living spaces, called loggias, with sliding doors opening to porches with fireplaces. The lots range in size from about a half-acre to 0.87 of an acre and are served by Goochland water and sewer and Columbia natural gas.
A site plan shows the lot layout for the site, which features a pond and access off River Road.
The site became available when it was broken off from the homestead of Linwood Mason Lockhart II and Christina Marmarou, who listed the land for sale in 2021 with Beth Lane of Metropolitan Real Estate.
Colonial Homecrafters, through its Tuckahoe Lands LLC, paid $1.77 million for the land, which Lane had listed with a $1.43 million asking price. Lane, who also lists Colonial Homecrafters homes in communities such as Kinloch, Fox Hall and Riverlake Colony, will be selling the homes at Lockhart Green as well.
Eddie Goode
Eddie Goode, Colonial Homecrafters’ president, said he jumped at the listing when it hit the market, describing it as a rare infill opportunity along a desirable stretch of the River Road corridor.
“Those types of opportunities do not come along often, if at all,” Goode said. “It was incumbent upon us, having established neighborhoods that were very nice (nearby), such as Rivergate and Wickham Glen and Lower Tuckahoe, to do something equal or better than what the existing housing product was in the area. We needed to have a real upscale product with a targeted market.”
Lane said the homes in Lockhart Green would appeal to older buyers because of the emphasis on first-floor living and options for an elevator.
“We’re trying to target some of those residents on the corridor possibly wanting to downsize. That’s why we focused primarily on first-floor living, and then adding the elevator was a complement to the design features we were thinking about,” Lane said.
Beth Lane
“If the homeowner does not want the elevator, then we can credit that to them and it will become a large closet. However, the shaft will be there, so if a future buyer decides they want to put the elevator in, they just have to cut the floor out and add the cab in.”
Lane said interest in Lockhart Green has been huge, with interest from various demographics and from families with students at nearby Saint Gertrude and Benedictine and Collegiate. The two lots sold so far closed before Colonial Handcrafters put in the roads on the site, which now features columns and a mailbox shelter at its entrance.
Goode said it’s too early to be able to provide an overall cost estimate for Lockhart Green. He noted that the number would include development costs beyond the $1.7 million paid for the land. The two lots sold so far went for $550,000 each, according to Goochland property records.
One of the five Lockhart Green home plans that buyers can customize.
Founded in 1976, Colonial Homecrafters is in its 50th year in business as a builder and 36th year as a developer. Goode said the company develops communities in Henrico, Chesterfield and Hanover that are typically sold to other builders, whereas with Lockhart Green, it will build all the homes itself.
The company also builds homes in Kinloch and Fox Hall, as well as in Riverlake Colony farther east along River Road, where it’s a few lots away from finishing that development after purchasing it out of foreclosure 35 years ago.
Lockhart Green is across River Road from the Lower Tuckahoe community and east of Historic Tuckahoe, the roughly 300-year-old house and 560-acre estate that once was home to a young Thomas Jefferson and hit the market this summer with a $17 million price tag.
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