The Cove at Old Hickory

The Cove at Old Hickory is a Dalamar Homes community in Hendersonville (37075), minutes from Old Hickory Lake and its marinas and parks. It is the higher-end, lake-adjacent option among Hendersonville's new-construction neighborhoods, with single-family homes from roughly 1,762 to 3,750 square feet priced about $613,000 to $880,000.

Two things set it apart: it's built by a custom builder rather than a national production company, and several of its plans are ranch homes with finished basements — a layout that's hard to find new in Middle Tennessee. Here's the builder, the plans, and the cost of ownership.

The builder: Dalamar Homes

Dalamar Homes was founded in 2006 by Dayla Martin and builds in Middle Tennessee from a Nashville office (130 Belle Forest Circle), with roots in Lexington, Kentucky. Unlike the production builders in most Hendersonville communities, Dalamar is a custom/semi-custom builder: the company started from the idea that the big new homes going up around Nashville weren't being designed around how people actually live.

In practice that means you select a floor plan and then customize the design with the Dalamar team, tracking the build through a customer portal and scheduled walkthroughs, and walking the finished home at a final orientation where the warranty process is reviewed. The reason to choose them here is personalization plus the basement ranch plans — single-level living with finished lower-level square footage you rarely get in new construction on this side of the metro.

The homes & floor plans

Plans are single-family, three to four-plus bedrooms, one to two stories, several with finished basements — viewable on Dalamar's community page. The lineup leans coastal in its naming and runs:

• Vero — 3 bed, 2.5 bath, about 2,540 sq ft. A right-sized plan for buyers who want quality over maximum square footage.
• Riviera — 4 bed, 3.5 bath, about 2,655 sq ft. The four-bedroom option with nearly a bath per bedroom.
• Pipa — a ranch (single-level) plan over 3,000 sq ft with a finished basement bonus room — the signature layout here for one-level living plus a lower-level retreat.
• Seascape — a 3-bed, 2-bath, 1.5-story plan, plus additional plans such as the Malibu; see the Dalamar page for the full set and current specs.

Listings have spanned a wide range — from about $612,900 for a roughly 1,762-square-foot home to about $815,900–$879,900 for a 3,750-square-foot home — so the community covers both buyers who want a manageable footprint and those who want 3,000-plus square feet. Homesites run roughly 0.21 to 0.4 acre.

Location & the lake

The draw is the setting: The Cove sits near Old Hickory Lake in Hendersonville, so the lake's public marinas, boat ramps, and shoreline parks are minutes away for boating, fishing, and weekends on the water — without the price of a true lakefront lot. The neighborhood itself is laid out for low-maintenance living with walking areas and parks nearby.

Commute & taxes

Off-peak drive times from The Cove:

• Downtown Nashville — about 20 miles, roughly 30 minutes via Vietnam Veterans Parkway (SR-386) / Briley Parkway
• Nashville International Airport (BNA) — about 18 miles, roughly 25 minutes via Briley Parkway
• Cool Springs / Franklin — about 38 miles, roughly 45 minutes via I-65

Property taxes combine the City of Hendersonville rate of $0.5883 per $100 of assessed value and the Sumner County rate of $1.42, for $2.0083 per $100. At Tennessee's 25% residential assessment, a $700,000 home runs about $3,515 a year.

How it compares

The Cove at Old Hickory plays at the top of Hendersonville's new-construction price range and trades amenity-heavy common areas for lake proximity and a custom-builder experience. If you want resort amenities — pools, courts, clubhouses — Mansker Farms and Durham Farms deliver more for the money. If you want a stocked-lake-and-trails setting at a lower price, The Retreat at Norman Farm is the comp. The Cove fits a buyer who specifically wants to be near Old Hickory Lake, values a customizable home from a smaller builder, and is drawn to a finished-basement ranch — a combination none of the production communities offer.

Pricing & availability

The Cove is actively selling through Dalamar Homes, with homes roughly $613,000 to $880,000 across plans from about 1,762 to 3,750 square feet on quarter-acre-ish lots. Because it's a smaller, custom-oriented community, available inventory and to-be-built opportunities shift frequently.

Full lineup: 10 homesites, 8 named plans

As of Dalamar's own community listing (checked 2026-07), The Cove at Old Hickory is platted as 10 homesites carrying eight named plans plus two "bring your own layout" (BYOL) lots priced on request. That's a small, single-phase community by Hendersonville new-construction standards — most of its competitors run into the hundreds of lots.

Because it's a 10-lot community rather than a multi-phase subdivision, plan availability by lot changes quickly as homes go under contract — treat any specific plan-to-lot pairing as a starting point to confirm, not a guarantee.

HOA & community layout

The Cove is a low-maintenance HOA community centered on a small pond, with a walking trail looped around the pond and a pavilion for residents, according to community listings from local brokerages (Nesting in Nashville, Groome Co., checked 2026-07). The lake access itself is public — Old Hickory Lake's marinas, boat ramps, and shoreline parks are a short drive away, not private community amenities — so this is a community for buyers who want lake proximity without paying for a resort-style clubhouse, pool, or fitness center on top of it.

We haven't found a published HOA dues figure for The Cove in any current listing or on Dalamar's site. Before writing an offer, get the exact HOA dues, the reserve study, and the covenants (CC&Rs) directly from the listing agent or the HOA management company — don't rely on any online estimate.

What to verify before you commit

Price in context: how The Cove compares to the county

Sumner County had 405 new-construction homes listed at a median price of about $478,000 as of mid-2026 (Redfin, Sumner County new-homes data, accessed 2026-07). The Cove's roughly $613,000–$880,000 range sits well above that county-wide median — consistent with its position as a lake-adjacent, custom-builder community rather than a production-scale subdivision. We can't predict where prices go from here; if you want to know what a specific plan or lot is running today, ask us and we'll pull the current sheet.

Schools

The Cove falls in the Sumner County Schools zone (Hendersonville-area attendance zones). We don't make judgment calls on school quality — confirm the specific zoned elementary, middle, and high school for any address in the community directly with Sumner County Schools (sumnerschools.org) or look up ratings yourself on GreatSchools.org, since attendance zones can change and any address-specific answer should come from the district, not from us.

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