Louisville, Tennessee

Lucky Find Cottage

A cottage that was nearly lost, moved down the road, and given another ninety years. Now yours for a few nights.

Welcome

A highway expansion needed the land it stood on.

So in 2023 the cottage was lifted whole and carried two miles down the road to the family's hobby farm, where it was put carefully back together — original layout, original floors, and everything a guest actually needs. It sleeps six.

Lucky Find Cottage behind its trees, the timber porch gable facing the drive

The Story

Ninety years old, and moved once.

The cottage is ninety years old. In 2023 it stood on ground that a highway expansion nearby needed, and the usual ending for a house in that position is a bulldozer. This one was moved instead — lifted in one piece and carried two miles, which is where the name comes from.

The restoration kept the original layout and the hardwood floors and left the plan alone. What changed is everything you would want changed in a house of that age — and nothing you would want kept.

More about the cottage

The living room with sofas drawn around the fireplace and a deep green wall behind

Inside

Two bedrooms, and room to sit still.

Two bedrooms with queen beds, and two twins in the loft up the spiral stair — six comfortably, on old floors, with enough space that nobody is stepping over anybody.

It is a whole house to yourselves, not a room in one — you arrive, you have the place, and the farm goes quietly on around you.

Booking

Check dates and book

Rates, availability and reviews all live on the Lucky Find Cottage listing.

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Sheep grazing in the fenced field beside the cottage

Outside

A working hobby farm, just past the porch.

The cottage sits on a working hobby farm. That is the difference between this and a house in town: the view out of the window is somebody's actual morning, and it starts early.

Close enough to Knoxville and the airport to be easy, far enough out to be genuinely quiet.

Getting Around

Near the things people come for.

McGhee Tyson Airport: 10 minutes away
The University of Tennessee: 20 minutes away
Great Smoky Mountains National Park: 40 minutes away

A Look Around

The cottage, inside and out

The pale green cottage with its timber-framed porch, framed by tall leafy trees in summer — The cottage

Two wooden rocking chairs on the covered porch beside the front door — The porch

The living room with sofas drawn around a fireplace and a deep green accent wall — By the fire

The kitchen with white cabinets, a range under a wooden hood, and a glazed door to outside — The kitchen

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Nearby

Hickory Hill Farm

Need room for a crowd as well as a bed? Hickory Hill Farm is family too — about a mile up the road, with fields, trails and a barn that books by the day for retreats and gatherings.

See Hickory Hill Farm

Rocking chairs waiting on the cottage porch

Book

Come and stay.

Dates, rates and reviews all live on the Airbnb listing. Questions before you book are welcome here.

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