764 E Hill Rd, New Marlborough, MA 01259

sale $3,998,000 | Other

Courtesy Of WILLIAM PITT SOTHEBY'S INTERNATIONAL REALTY

East Hill Farm is a complete 1798 estate, a working farm if one wants. Generations of gardens, a pool, tennis court, trails, pond and pasture abut state forest and protected land. The farmhouse's 5,000 sf core is museum-quality restored, gracious, not precious. A 1790s barn moved from Amherst and rebuilt here, and a 1930s Arabian horse barn turned into four duplex guest residences with 4 kitchens, 10 bedrooms, and ceilings to 20 feet over 6,668 sf, sit on 227 acres. Five minutes from the Southfield Store, six from Gedney Farm and the Old Inn on the Green, eighteen from Great Barrington, its setting suits weddings, retreats, wellness, and hospitality. Any commercial, non-agricultural use is subject to the issuance of a special permit by the Town of New Marlborough. EAST HILL FARM 764 East Hill Road, New Marlborough, Massachusetts 227 acres in the southern Berkshires, rare in prime Southern Berkshire county at any price: a complete estate and working farm with its restoration already done, a guest complex that works now and could be adapted in multi-faceted ways, open pastures, water, and a boundary that touches state forest to the north and conservation land along part of the south. THE LAND The scale here is unusual and so is the privacy. Lawns and gardens with majestic old growth trees and gardens with fifty years of intention in them, stone and hedge and bed arranged by someone thinking about the view from the house. A spring fed pond of roughly four acres. Pastures and paddocks served by hydrants engineered against freezing. Meadow, hayfield, and forest. Private roads and trails running through all of it. Closer to the house: a gunite pool below a fieldstone waterfall, a pool house, a fully resurfaced tennis court, a greenhouse, and a garden shed handsome enough that people stop at it to imagine themselves making it their own personal space and gazing out the doors and windows. The acreage is enrolled in Chapter 61A. EQUINE The property was built around horses and still reads that way. The Arabian barn, the paddock structure, the water hydrants, the open pasture, the woodland trails and the possibility for a network across 227 contiguous acres. Boarding, training, therapeutic riding, and rescue operations have each been raised by parties who have walked it. Riding stables are among the uses specifically enumerated in the New Marlborough bylaw as available by special permit. GATHERINGS Enough distance in every direction that sound and parking are absorbed on site rather than pushed onto a neighbor. Weddings, family gatherings, corporate retreats, and wellness or workshop programming and a myriad of other possibilities could unfold. The guest barn's ten bedrooms over 6,668 square feet mean people can stay, which is the part most properties in this category cannot solve. HOSPITALITY New Marlborough has a real history here, which is worth knowing before anyone assumes a town this small would be unfamiliar with the idea. Gedney Farm, roughly six minutes from this door, has operated for decades as an inn, restaurant, and high end wedding venue. The Old Inn on the Green sits just down the road. Mepal Manor, also in New Marlborough, ran for years as an inn and spa and wedding venue before being converted into a high end residential substance treatment facility, which it remains. None of that guarantees an outcome here. It does mean this is not an idea the town has never encountered. THE MAIN HOUSE The Thomas Shepard House was built in 1798. Individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1984, when the restoration was completed after taking the home down to the ground and rebuilding it not as it had evolved randomly over 200 years as old houses do, but how it was built in a combination of Georgian and Federal styles. The listing in the registry does not confer restrictions on what changes a new owner wishes to make, subject to the town's bylaws and building codes. The core has been restored to museum standard.

Property Features

Age: Over 50 Years Old
Amenities: Elevaor
Amenities: Disabled Access
Amenities: Basement
Building Units: 1
Exterior Type: Post/Beam
Exterior Type: Fiberglass
Exterior Type: Wood Frame
MLSID: 250683
Roof Type: Asphalt
Roof Type: Shake
Roof Type: Fiberglass
Rooms: Bathroom 8
Rooms: Bathroom 9
Rooms: Bathroom 6
Rooms: Bathroom 7
Rooms: Bathroom 4
Rooms: Bathroom 5
Rooms: Bathroom 2
Rooms: Basement
Rooms: Bathroom 3
Rooms: Bathroom 14
Rooms: Bathroom 13
Rooms: Bathroom 15
Rooms: Bathroom 10
Rooms: Bathroom 12
Rooms: Bathroom 11
Rooms: Bathroom 1

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