For $3.2m, Westport contemporary with a guest/pool house
With a prime locale shut to the waterfront, 5 Fairview Ave. in Westport is a dreamlike escape as possibly a summer season residence or a yr-round home for those people who love cooling off in the surf, poolside, or with a swift shower out in the sunshine.
Located on 2.74 acres, the property is made up of a four-bedroom, 2.5-bath principal dwelling and a visitor house that also serves as the pool property. Stage inside of the multi-level mid-century fashionable contemporary, which actions roughly 3,000 square ft, and you’ll uncover a attractive entryway that makes it possible for you to gaze out to the rolling yard. At first crafted in 1958, the residence, which is detailed at $3,200,000, has traditional mid-century options that have been updated to embrace present day amenities. The white kitchen has quartz capabilities, higher-end appliances, and sights of the Westport River in the distance. The warm and comfortable living space, which also has distant water sights, has a stunning Westport stone fire and beamed ceiling.
A number of actions up the open up stairway, which is in entrance of a two-tale wall of casement windows, is the primary bed room suite. It has a wander-in closet and first mid-century vanities that ended up learned in an antique retail store. Keep on up quite a few additional stairs, and you are going to find a enjoyment loft house that’s terrific for a young children enjoy area or a looking at nook beneath a skylight. There are two further bedrooms on that prime amount, as effectively as a bonus home achieved by heading down a few techniques. It has a wooden-burning hearth and is at present employed as an place of work.
“You have incredible privacy,” said Ellie Wickes of Mott & Chace Sotheby’s Intercontinental Realty, who has the listing. “It’s really peaceful, and it’s totally wonderful.”
Outdoors the major household is a bluestone patio and lush landscaping. The 1,460-square-foot visitor house is great for summer season. It attributes a dwelling space with a brick wooden-burning hearth beneath a granite mantel. The modern kitchen area has horizontal home windows powering the sink, making it possible for you to seem out about the landscape. The visitor household has a new complete bathtub and a initially-flooring bed room, as effectively as two further rooms upstairs. It offers its personal laundry place, as nicely as an more kitchenette that products and services the new heated, saltwater swimming pool. The residence also has two outside showers.
The residence also has a tennis court docket, which was not long ago resurfaced. There is also a new garage, which has 1-and-a-50 % bays. Equally the major and guest residences have their individual complete-residence generators.
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