Dunbar Hill Road
A three-bedroom ranch of 1957 stands on nearly two acres on Dunbar Hill Road in Hamden, its living room and kitchen under one cathedral ceiling crossed by dark-stained beams. Windows run along two walls of the main room and look out into the trees.
The fireplace sits between built-in bookcases, and the kitchen has granite counters, stainless steel appliances and an island with stools. The full bath and the half bath have both been remodeled, the windows are replacements, and the roof, gutters and mechanicals are newer, a tankless water heater among them. The house is almost entirely on one level. Outside, a deck looks down on a fire pit in the trees, and a fieldstone wall runs along the lawn.
Dunbar Hill
The neighborhood's name goes back to Giles Dunbar, whose home and woolen mill stood off Building Brook. A school bearing his name later took the mill's place, the area became known as Dunbar, and in time Dunbar Hill, after the lay of the land.
From 1930 the toymaker A. C. Gilbert, who developed the Erector Set in 1913, put together about 600 acres of farmland abutting Paradise Avenue as a private preserve, gave the town a ridge road of a mile and a quarter running to Dunbar Hill Road, and from 1937 sold much of the land as house lots. The listing's directions to the house start on Paradise Avenue.
