Silly Creek Waterfront

Demand for premium waterfront on Providenciales continues to strengthen, and the supply of it does not. This Silly Creek parcel is the chance to build a private villa or luxury residence in one of the island's most desirable west end settings, on 0.58 acres with over 137 feet of clear turquoise frontage.

The site is not flat, and that is the point. The survey contours run from about two feet at the coastline to twenty five feet at the high ground inside the north west boundary, a rise of roughly one foot in ten. Elevation gives you the view without fighting for it, and it gives a designer room to step a house down toward the water rather than flatten the site to build on it.

137 feet on the water, 108 on the road

This is the parcel as surveyed, redrawn to scale with true north. Bearings and distances are taken from the 2014 site plan by Benchmark Survey Associates, and the traverse closes to within a hundredth of a foot, which gives 0.58 acres and about 25,300 square feet. The shading runs from the low ground at the coastline to the high ground inside the north west boundary.

Press the button below the plan and the site fills up: the buildable envelope with the setbacks taken off, then a main residence, a sixty foot pool and its terrace fitted inside it at true scale. On two levels that is a house of around nine thousand square feet with the water in front of it. This is what the parcel actually carries.

The ground, in section

Read straight off the survey contours, along the line the pool and house would take. The coastline sits at about two feet. The ground climbs steadily to around fifteen feet by the end of the coastal setback, a pool terrace lands naturally at seventeen to eighteen feet, and a knoll at twenty one feet makes an obvious platform for the house. From the ground floor your eye is about twenty six feet up on the survey datum, higher than any ground between the house and the water, so the outlook runs over the terrace and out across the creek. In a hurricane zone, that height above the water is worth having too.

Where the sun goes down, measured

This is a west facing site, and the survey puts a number on it: the shoreline is fixed on a bearing of 099 degrees 08 minutes, with the outlook opening west down the creek. Across the year the sun sets between 245 degrees in December and 295 degrees in June, a fifty degree arc that tracks across the water in front of the parcel. The times move with it, from just after five in November to half past seven in July.

The brief this site writes for you

Before you commission anything, these are the constraints and opportunities a designer will work from. A topographical map and an example villa concept are both available, so you can start the conversation with real material rather than assumptions.

The photographs

Silly Creek, Chalk Sound

On the west end of Providenciales, in the Chalk Sound area. Taylor Bay and Sapodilla Bay are both close by, and the setting stays quiet and residential while the rest of the island remains within easy reach.

Area

Silly Creek, Chalk Sound

Parcel

Block 60400, Parcel 45

MLS

2501116

Land

0.58 acres, 137.21 ft frontage

Satellite view centred on the parcel at 21.7563 N, 72.3021 W.

The numbers

Calculated from the asking price and the surveyed figures. Land is worth comparing three ways, because a short wide lot and a long narrow one at the same acreage are not the same asset.

The Turks and Caicos has no annual property tax, no income tax and no capital gains tax, so stamp duty and closing costs are paid once and that is the end of it. Run the full figure for this parcel before you make an offer.

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Everything you need next

Buying land is the start of the job, not the end of it. These are the independent reference guides I publish for the islands, each one covering a step between here and a finished house, from choosing an architect to pricing the build.

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