A Berkshires Natural beauty with Mountain Views and Attractive Gardens

For Sale/Hire

People today flock to this place in the slide to enjoy the colorful foliage, but you can appreciate it ideal from the glass porch on this 1900 Stockbridge residence.


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17 Prospect Hill Road, Stockbridge
Price: $4,850,000
Sizing: 4,830 square toes
Bedrooms: 4
Bathrooms: 4 entire, 1 partial

Do you like to shell out your weekends visiting art museums or having fun with new music at the symphony? How about getting winding, uphill hikes that end with attractive mountaintop sights? Any genuine connoisseur knows the put that combines the best of both of those worlds is the Berkshires. And this Stockbridge dwelling lands you suitable in the middle of the action.

This property has a background just as storied as the area wherever it resides. Constructed in 1900, the home is rumored to be the initial of quite a few “large cottages” in the Prospect Hill community. But its roots go even further, as evidenced by the 1823 cornerstone that is still component of the creating. More than the several years, the household has gone through a quantity of renovations that have left it with 3 floors of open up residing space although maintaining unique aspects from the time period of time when it was initially constructed. The house features 4 marble fireplaces, antique woodwork, and a widow’s wander, in addition to multi-purposeful spaces numerous modern home owners need to have. In addition to 4 bedrooms, this household also has a huge video game space on the third floor.

From the inside, you can appreciate sights of the cautiously cultivated outside place encompassing this household. Bordered by trees and mountains, the house supplies unfettered access to the region’s most coveted sights, primarily when the leaves improve coloration in the drop. A three-sided glass porch off the residence overlooks your individual walled-in sunken back garden. The residence alone arrives with 15 acres of land, anchored by a 200-year-previous copper beech tree, which suggests there is sufficient opportunity to broaden your outdoor residing. Build out the gardens, set up some Adirondack chairs for sitting in when stargazing, or even convey in horses, which is permitted on this house. The choices are open up in this gem of a household.

For extra details, contact Martha Piper, William Pitt Sotheby’s Intercontinental Realty, williampitt.com.

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