luxury farmhouses with terrace for sale New York, United States

This elegant Mid-Century Modern / Arts& Crafts style country home is set in a remote NY City Watershed Protection Lands. The house uses wide T&G cedar boards for the walls and native bluestone shale for the floors together with hardwood floors. The dining and living rooms have cathedral ceilings with large exposed timber beams. The creative floorplan of the dining room is a partial circle surrounded by windows and a cathedral ceiling using a dozen timbers creating a conical shape joining the full height fieldstone Kachelofen style fireplace. There is a sun filled three season Florida room with windows on three sides and sky-lites beside the living room, which can be used in the winter with supplemental heaters. Downstairs is a large family room with woodstove inset into a fieldstone enclosure, a complete service kitchen, a wet bar, laundry area, and a full bathroom with shower. There is a 2 garage below the house entering to this lower level family room. Three large wooden decks nearly surround the house and a flagstone patio is behind with a stone hearth and inset Lazyman BBQ and FeastMaster smoking oven which use propane. Behind the house is over 6 acres of pasture with a 6 horse-stall barn, each stall with an outside door, ready for your herd of horses, with three car garage with concrete slab floor and 100 amp electric service. There is substantial hay storage on the second floor of the barn with convenient feed chutes to each stall. Above the pastures near the height of land is a rustic cottage and a well. Nearby the equipment barn are two 500 gallon fuel tanks for diesel and gasoline with electric pumps. Below the house are two scenic ponds of about 1/3 acre each with vistas of the mountains around and gazebos for entertaining. There is a 200+ year old sugar maple near the house and most of the property is forested with ages from 50-100 year old trees of regionally common species. This remarkable private estate is near Hunter Mt skiing and all the wonderful outdoor activities available in the central Catskill Mountains. The Schoharie Creek is near by for fishing and kayaking, many mountain trails for hiking with wonderful restaurants throughout the area. See the 3D tour of the house at: https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=agKzMqXmyA5&brand=0 cut and paste this address into your browser. See the 3D tour of the barn at: https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=pNs2x7yVJQG&brand=0 cut and paste this address into your browser. Development of the 105 acres into 4 parcels could be subdivided for private estates. This property has an internal shared road called Sheepskin Road, which provides access to two neighbor properties but also allows easy subdivision of the property. Two parcels can be created on the west side of Sheepskin Rd with about 7.5 and 25 acres with a substantial plateau at 1950 feet for views. Two larger parcels can be created on the east side of Sheepskin Rd with about 35 acres around the house & barn, and the larger east side parcel would be about38 acres and has a hilltop at 1940 feet elevation affording expansive views of the Hunter Mountain area along the Schoharie Creek valley.

7 buildings on 22+ acres: White Carriage House, Stone Building, Wood Shop (with forge), Horse and Livestock Barn, Main House, Guest House and Schoolhouse. Also, a Spring House and Root Cellar. Infrastructure: First four buildings listed were brought up to full-use by current owner with water/electricity and heat running to all four buildings. Water: Property includes pond, 120-foot well, water rights via Spring House access to neighbor's water rights, and a portion of the West Branch of Delaware River (property line goes to the far shore of the river, narrow at the point that borders the land.) The property is in the NYC watershed; new septic tank installed May 2023 at no cost to owner. Also, as this acreage is in the river valley, there has never been a time, even during drought, that water has been unavailable. (Not the case with several farms/land in area; when a dry season hits, unpredictable of course, and farms run dry, it's a nightmare; never been the case here.) Additional details of land: Orchard, pastures, three paddocks, a knot garden, a vegetable garden. Owner can attest and notarize that no pesticides have been used on the land in 22+ years: all organic. Zoning: No restrictions: zoned for commercial and residential. Cannabis needs an additional permit, and other local business have been granted permits. Annual taxes: $14,831.16 (Property: $9957.72; School: $4,873.44.) Commercial Access: Two driveways to property; parking lot (field behind Wood Shop where freight trucks loaded in/out); capacity of White Carriage House as many as 350 people when used for weddings/events. Property is directly on County Hwy 18 which is plowed during inclement weather allowing 24/7 easy access/egress for business vehicles year-round. Property is directly across from State Route 10, again easy transportation access. History: Original settler J. McLean was a copper magnate and building construction reflects the wealth: the grandeur of the White Carriage House, the stability of the Stone Building (originally, the family's private train depot for tracks that now are used as the 21-mil Catskill Scenic Trail, some of which crosses through this property; owner has farm-right-of-way for cattle or trucks); the size of the rooms in the Main House, the post-and-beam construction of the Horse and Livestock Barn. And the stone wall that surrounds the majority of the property, one of the few in the area still intact, is a testament to the construction and care devoted to the estate.