Buncombe County
Deck Builder in Leicester, NC
Leicester is unincorporated Buncombe County, northwest of Asheville — rolling farmland and wooded ridges rather than the sharp escarpment terrain of the towns closer to the Blue Ridge. It's a gentler kind of hilly, but it's still hilly.
Lots out here tend to run larger, with more acreage and more setback from the road than an in-town lot, which usually makes staging and access easier. Longer driveways cut the other way, though — I plan for where a truck can actually get to before I plan anything else.
It's about a twenty-minute drive from Asheville, and the ground and building stock are rural rather than dense — more standalone houses on open land than tight, older in-town streets.
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- Does a bigger, more rural lot make a deck or porch job easier?
- Usually, for staging — more room to work and stage material than a tight in-town lot. A longer driveway can offset that, so I confirm access before I confirm a schedule.
- Is Leicester as steep as Fairview or Black Mountain?
- Generally not. It's rolling farmland and ridges rather than the sharp mountainside grade you get closer to the escarpment, though individual lots still vary.