Created with active family lifestyles in mind

Greenwich home strikes balance of privacy and convenience

Michele Klosson and Sandy Shaw of Sotheby’s International Realty have teamed up to co-list the five-bedroom single-family home at 53 Round Hill Road, Greenwich. The asking price for the property is $6.85 million.

Georgian in architectural style, the exterior of the 18-room house is clad in clapboard and built of stone. The house was custom built in 2000, and it’s on the market for the first time since. Greenwich Time interviewed the homeowner, who recalled when she and her husband acquired the parcel and embarked on designing their family’s dream home.

“It was built by Ira Grandberg of Grandberg & Associates Architects, who is well-known and regarded for his classic designs. … One of the nicest compliments we get? When people say that it looks like our home has ‘always been there.’ It nestles into the property, surrounded by almost four acres, with mature trees and lush landscaping. We’ve added some gardens, but mostly kept it natural, because that’s the way we liked it,” the homeowner said.

The 3.87-acre setting is what initially attracted the owners to the site. Though it afforded their custom home lots of privacy, the location place them just a sixminute drive to downtown Greenwich.

With 8,526 square feet of living space, the interior rooms are spacious and inviting. The first floor comprises a foyer, formal living and dining rooms, a paneled library, a card room, family room, kitchen, breakfast room,

butler’s pantry, one of three offices, and a mudroom that leads out to the three-car garage.

“We built the house for an active family,” the owner explained. “For example, we’re huge sports enthusiasts, so we created an enormous mudroom with lots of extra storage and cubbies.”

Buyers searching in this area of Greenwich, in this price range, may be interested in some of the home’s finest architectural and design details, such as hardwood flooring, three fireplaces and a gourmet kitchen with granite countertops. French doors have been incor

porated into a number of the public room designs, allowing for nice “flow” – for daily living or when entertaining – out to the terraces, lawns and pool.

The pandemic changed priorities for buyers, who now particularly value space – indoors and outside – at-home amenities, and places to work for both the adults in the home and the children. There are two large offices here – practically, a wing of office space. The three offices proved invaluable as COVID-19 descended upon the region, and suddenly there were four adults living and working at home.

The house has five bedrooms – each with en suite bathrooms. The master, in fact, has two baths of its own and a pair of walk-in closets. “Each of the kid’s rooms has a built-in desk, because we anticipated that they’d need to work in their rooms as they grew up,” she said.

In addition to the heated, 50foot pool, this home has a few other noteworthy amenities, including a home gym, billiards room and a wine cellar.

“While there’s a family room upstairs, there’s another downstairs – for TV, a ping-pong table and a pool table,” the seller said.

Ultimately, the next owner of this property will enjoy the fruits and labors of the first owners, who tended to gift specimen trees to one another, for anniversaries, holidays and other occasions. “We’ve got some fun ones,” the seller said. “There are Japanese maples, dogwoods, and a beautiful weeping beech in the front.

“There’s a magnolia outside of the kitchen, and when it’s in bloom, it’s amazing,” she attested. “We have a beautiful piece of land, and I’ve loved our home. Hopefully, we’ll find a buyer who wants to enjoy it as much as we have, and perhaps raise their kids here, too.”

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Sotheby’s International Realty / Contributed photos The heated in-ground pool at 53 Round Hill Road is properly secured with fencing that’s been cleverly concealed by landscaping additions and mature trees and shrubberies.

The kitchen was designed with functionality in mind, with a large center island and lots of room to move around it. Lightly finished cheery cabinets are complemented by the light-green granite surfaces and stainless appliances. Plus, there’s a butler’s pantry with additional storage and work space.

The first introduction to the home is made in the entry foyer, with elegant molding, wainscotting, an arched alcove and warm honey-hued hardwood flooring.

One of the home’s three fireplaces is found in the paneled library, creating a warm, inviting and more intimate place to read, converse or work.