125 Cricket Hollow Way

An early-1800s hand-hewn log cabin on 2 wooded acres along Cricket Creek, a few minutes from the Cosby entrance to Great Smoky Mountains National Park, listed at $599,900. The listing says the cabin was built in the early 1800s and moved to this creekside setting, that four historic rooms are preserved inside, and that a 2025 remodel brought new PEX plumbing, updated electrical, new fixtures, roof improvements and updated decking. It is currently on a rental program and sleeps up to eight.

The asking price has come down four times since April, from $699,900 to $599,900, and the property first appeared for sale in November 2025 at $685,000.

The land and setting

The listing describes nearly 2 private wooded acres along Cricket Creek, with the creek called seasonal in the description of the back porch view. Zillow’s county lot figure is 2 acres, or 87,120 square feet. The photos show a gravel drive coming in past a carved sign set in stone, a circular gravel driveway and parking area, and woods on every side of the cabin.

The listing does not name the road surface or say who maintains Cricket Hollow Way, and it does not give road frontage. The parking is listed as a circular gravel driveway with no garage and no carport.

Outside there is a stone fire pit with camp chairs, a hot tub on a gravel pad with firewood stacked behind it, and a pool in a clearing in the woods. The listing does not say whether the pool is heated, in ground or above ground, or whether any of these convey with the sale.

The listing places the property between Newport and Gatlinburg, near the park entrance, with hiking, fishing, rafting and tubing close by, and Pigeon Forge and Sevierville a drive away.

The house

The listing gives 2,803 square feet, 3 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms, which it breaks out as 3 en-suite bedrooms with 3 full baths and 1 half bath, plus additional sleeping space, sleeping up to 8. The photos show built-in bunk beds and a room with two beds beyond the three main bedrooms, which is where the extra capacity comes from.

Inside, the original hand-hewn logs are exposed in several rooms, and the four preserved historic rooms the listing mentions read as the lower-ceilinged log rooms in the photos. The additions, which the listing dates to the late 1990s, carry cathedral ceilings and tall windows. There is a spiral stair to a loft, a kitchen with a range, vent hood, dishwasher and refrigerator, and a lower level with a game room, a sitting area and a kitchenette with a stacked washer and dryer.

The listing dates the structure to the early 1800s. The county record on the listing page gives a year built of 1984, which is the figure the Zillow facts panel shows. Those describe different things, the original log structure and the year the county has on file for the house as it now stands, and a buyer should ask the agent which date applies to what.

The listing names the 2025 remodel items specifically: new PEX plumbing, updated electrical, new fixtures, recent roof improvements and updated decking. It does not say who did the work, whether it was permitted, or what was left undone. It also says the home was once owned by the artist Mary Todd Beam.

The facts

Price	$599,900
Acreage	2 acres
Beds / baths / sqft	3 / 4 / 2,803
Year built	1984 per the county record. The listing describes an early-1800s cabin
Property taxes	$929 (2025) per the county record on the listing page
HOA	Not listed
Financing	Not listed
Water	Not listed
Sewer	Not listed
Power	Not listed
Internet	Not listed
Heating / cooling	Not listed
Road access	Not listed
Zoning	Not listed
Flood zone	Not listed
Days on market	44 days on Zillow. First listed for sale 11/7/2025

What to know before you call

The listing is unusually thin on the systems a buyer needs to price. It does not state water, sewer, power, internet, heating or cooling. On a rural Cocke County parcel those are usually well and septic rather than public utilities, but the listing does not say so and we are not going to guess. Ask before you write an offer, and ask when the septic was last pumped and inspected and where the well sits relative to it.

The price history is the other thing to weigh. The property has been for sale since November 2025, first at $685,000 by owner, then relisted and cut four times through 2026: $699,900 in April, $649,900 in May, $629,900 in July and $599,900 in August. That is about ten months on the market and roughly $100,000 off the April number. The price changes also run through three different sources, GSMAR, East Tennessee Realtors and the current RealTracs listing, so the MLS number a buyer is quoted may not match older records.

The tax line deserves a close look. The county record shows 2025 taxes of $929 on an assessment of $61,950, and that assessment is 93 percent higher than the $32,100 carried in 2023 and 2024. Tennessee counties reassess on a cycle rather than at sale, so a jump like that reflects a reassessment year, not a sale. What matters for a buyer is that the assessed value on file is still far below the asking price, and a future reassessment can move the tax bill substantially. The $929 figure is what the current owner paid, not a forecast of what the next owner will pay.

The listing markets the cabin as an established short-term rental and says it is currently on a rental program. It does not name the program, give occupancy or revenue figures, say whether bookings transfer, or address permits. Cocke County and the towns near the park entrance treat short-term rentals differently, so confirm in writing what is permitted at this address before you count on rental income. Ask whether the furnishings convey, since a rental valuation usually assumes they do.

Financing is not addressed anywhere in the listing. There is no note ruling out FHA, VA or USDA, and no cash-only language, but there is no confirmation either. A house whose original structure dates to the early 1800s, moved to its present site, can raise questions with an appraiser and with some loan products, so talk to a lender early.

Three bedrooms against four bathrooms and 2,803 square feet is a wide spread, and the sleeping capacity of eight leans on bunk beds and a room with two beds rather than additional bedrooms. If a bedroom count matters for your financing or your rental permit, confirm how many rooms qualify as bedrooms under the county’s definition, which usually turns on egress and on septic capacity.

For more Tennessee land and cabins, see the creek-front four-bedroom on 0.99 acres in Waynesboro and the 8.86 acres on Smith Hollow Road in Greeneville, or browse everything on the properties hub.

To ask about this one, contact Heidi Hines at 865-896-1009 or Thomas Workman at 423-608-0752, both with Century 21 Legacy, whose office number is 865-436-7121. The listing does not show an email address for either agent. We send one email on Mondays with the properties we found that week.