Daniel Island · Charleston, South Carolina

807 Dunham Street

A marsh-front custom home at the end of the street on Daniel Island, raised over a drive-under garage with double porches, a screened porch off the great room and a pool set into the marsh edge. Four bedrooms, five baths, 3,882 heated square feet, completed in 2023 to a Crosby Creations plan. Iconic Developments represented the seller.

4Bedrooms

5Bathrooms

3,882Heated Sq Ft

2023Completed

807 Dunham Street backs onto open marsh, and everything about the house answers to that. The rear elevation is turned to the water rather than to the yard, the porches are stacked three deep so every level gets the view, and the pool sits at the marsh edge instead of in the middle of the lawn. From the upper floors the sightline runs across the marsh to the Cooper River and the port terminals beyond — a view that is protected by the marsh itself rather than by a covenant. Iconic Developments represented the seller here, through pricing, positioning, marketing and closing.

The Residence

Site & Setting

Marsh frontage is the one feature on Daniel Island that cannot be added later, and it is the reason this lot is worth what it is worth. The salt marsh behind the house is protected tideland — nobody builds on it, nobody clears it, and the view does not depend on who buys the parcel behind you, because there is no parcel behind you. The trade is that the same protection runs the other way: the critical line and its buffer govern how close anything can be built to the water, which is why the pool, the porches and the entire rear footprint were laid out around that line rather than pushed to it. The house sits at the end of the street, so the only through traffic is people who live there.

Exterior & Construction

Cladding — Board-and-batten over the full elevation — a Lowcountry vocabulary rather than a coastal-contemporary one, and the detail that keeps a large white house from reading as a blank wall.

Roof — Standing-seam metal. On the marsh the wind exposure and the salt load are both higher than they are two streets inland, and metal is a forty-year roof where architectural shingle is a fifteen-to-twenty-year one.

Elevation — Raised over a drive-under garage on exposed-aggregate concrete piers, with horizontal louvered screening between them — the ground level is parking, storage and access, which is what the flood elevation permits it to be.

Porches — Double front porches with square columns and turned railing, a screened porch off the great room, and an open deck above it — three separate outdoor rooms on three levels.

Entry — Mahogany double front doors with full sidelights, set under the porch and flanked by gas lanterns.

Drive — Paver drive to carriage-style garage doors set between the piers.

Entry & Main Level

The front door opens onto a hall that runs clean through the house to the rear glass, and that hall — along with the dining room and the stair — is wrapped floor to ceiling in board-and-batten paneling rather than capped at a wainscot. It is the most expensive decision on the main level and the one that does the most work: it gives an unfurnished room shadow and proportion, which is why these spaces photograph and show well empty. White oak runs continuously across the level, up the stair and through the upper corridors with no thresholds between rooms. A study off the hall carries a built-in desk with shiplap-backed shelving.

Kitchen

Island — Dark-painted island run as a furniture piece against white perimeter cabinetry, seated on the working side.

Counters — Marble on the island and the perimeter, carried up the wall as the backsplash rather than stopped at a four-inch return.

Hood — Custom shiplap range hood, built rather than bought, sized to the ceiling height instead of to the range.

Refrigeration — Panel-ready columns set into the cabinetry run, so the appliance wall reads as millwork.

Pantry — Butler’s pantry off the kitchen with open shelving, brass hardware and a full run of counter — the room that keeps the island clear when the house is full.

Dining — Breakfast room under a beaded chandelier, with its own door to the porch.

Owner’s Suite & Baths

Owner’s bath — Two separate vanities flanking a freestanding tub set into the window wall, so the tub faces the trees rather than a mirror.

Shower — Frameless corner shower in large-format marble-look tile, glass on two sides, with a brass shower set.

Closet — Owner’s closet fitted with custom shelving and drawer banks and daylit at the end — built in, not wire-shelved.

Guest baths — Three secondary baths, each finished differently: a marble shower surround with brass, a subway-tiled tub surround with a grey quartz top, and a stacked green tile shower with a teal vanity. The secondary baths were not value-engineered down.

Bedrooms — Secondary bedrooms carry their own baths and walk-in closets, with a vaulted room on the top floor that works as a bunk room, a media room or an office.

Outdoor Living & Systems

Screened porch — Full-depth screened porch off the great room on multi-panel sliders, with fans and a tongue-and-groove ceiling — the room that gets used most from April through October.

Upper deck — Open deck above the screened porch, which is where the long marsh and river view actually is.

Pool — In-ground pool set at the marsh edge on a travertine deck, positioned to keep the lawn and the view rather than occupy them.

Fireplace — Masonry firebox with a painted mantel in the great room.

Laundry — Dedicated laundry in white shaker cabinetry with a black stone counter and a deep sink.

Garage — Three-bay drive-under garage — on an island where a golf cart is a second vehicle, the third bay is not a luxury.

At a Glance

Address	807 Dunham Street, Daniel Island, SC 29492
City	Daniel Island, Charleston, South Carolina
Bedrooms	4
Bathrooms	5
Heated Square Feet	3,882
Year Completed	2023
Plan	Crosby Creations
Lot	Marsh-front, approximately 0.25 acre
Views	Salt marsh, Cooper River, Charleston port terminals
Construction	Raised living levels over a three-bay drive-under garage
Exterior	Board-and-batten cladding, standing-seam metal roof
Interior	White oak floors throughout, full-height board-and-batten paneling
Kitchen	Dark island, marble counters and backsplash, custom shiplap hood, panel-ready refrigeration
Notable Features	In-ground pool, screened porch, upper deck, double front porches, gas lanterns, butler’s pantry
Iconic’s Role	Represented the seller

Frequently Asked Questions

What does a marsh-front lot on Daniel Island actually buy you?

A view nobody can take away, and a set of rules about what you can do with it. The salt marsh is protected tideland, so the parcel behind you is never developed — that is the whole premium, and it is why marsh lots trade well above interior lots on the same street. What comes with it is the OCRM critical line: a surveyed boundary at the edge of the marsh with a buffer inside it, and both of them govern where a house, a pool, a deck or a fence can go. On a lot this size that line usually decides the rear footprint before an architect is engaged. Buy the lot on the survey and the critical-line location, not on the listing photo.

Can you build a private dock off a marsh lot on Daniel Island?

Sometimes, and far less often than buyers assume. A dock permit runs through SCDHEC-OCRM and depends on things the lot cannot change — how far the marsh runs before it reaches navigable water, whether the creek is deep enough to be considered navigable at all, how wide your critical-line frontage is, and whether a neighbor’s existing dock corridor already occupies the alignment. Plenty of beautiful marsh lots will never carry a dock, which is why island neighborhoods build community docks instead. If a dock is the reason you are buying, get an answer from a marine contractor or a permitting consultant before you go under contract, not during due diligence.

Standing-seam metal or architectural shingle in the Lowcountry?

Metal, if the budget carries it and the exposure justifies it. A standing-seam roof runs roughly two to three times the installed cost of architectural shingle and lasts two to three times as long, so on a long hold the math is close to a wash and the wind and salt performance is not close at all. Shingle is the right answer on a low-slope roof with heavy tree cover, where the metal premium buys you less and the debris load is the real problem. On an exposed marsh-front elevation it is the more durable choice and it is also part of why the house reads the way it does from the water.

What is the difference between Daniel Island and Daniel Island Park?

Daniel Island is the whole island — the town center, the schools, the trail system, the neighborhoods and the marsh edges. Daniel Island Park is a private club community inside it, built around two golf courses and the club amenities, with its own membership structure and its own price tier. Both are Daniel Island addresses and both share the island’s trails, parks and schools. The distinction matters mainly to what you pay and what you get access to, and it is the single most common point of confusion for buyers coming from outside Charleston.

Does a pool add value on Daniel Island, or is it a personal decision?

On a home in this price tier it is closer to expected than optional, which is a different thing from saying it returns its cost. A pool rarely appraises for what it costs to build, and on a small lot it can actively narrow the buyer pool by consuming the yard. Where it earns its keep is on a lot like this one, where the pool sits at the marsh edge and takes nothing away from the lawn or the view, and where the buyer profile is a household that would otherwise have crossed the house off for not having one. Build it because the family will use it and because the site can absorb it — not as an investment.

What does Iconic Developments do when representing a seller on Daniel Island?

Pricing first, and honestly. On a marsh-front custom home the comparables are thin and half of them are wrong for the property, so the work is establishing what is genuinely comparable — frontage, elevation, program, finish level — rather than pulling a per-square-foot average off the street. From there it is preparation, photography, positioning against whatever else is on the market that week, and negotiation. Chris Eller has more than 22 years in Charleston custom construction, land acquisition and luxury sales, and builds as well as sells, which is why the conversation about what a buyer’s inspector will find happens before the house goes on the market rather than after. See our Daniel Island resources.

Selling on Daniel Island?

Chris Eller has more than 22 years in Charleston custom construction, land acquisition and luxury sales. On a marsh-front custom home the comparables are thin and the pricing conversation is the whole ballgame. Start there.

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