Ox Pasture Road

Five and three hundredths acres inside Southampton Village, in the Estate Section, on the south side of the highway. The county roll measures the parcel at 217,800 square feet. What stands on it is a family compound, and the part of it that cannot be reproduced is not the house but the permission behind it. The ancillary buildings are pre-existing and grandfathered, and assembling that same collection under today's Southampton Village code would be extraordinarily difficult, close to impossible. None of it is new construction. The street number is kept off the listing. The road is Ox Pasture.

Past a gated entrance the drive winds under a century old weeping beech. Eight bedrooms sit in the main residence. A fully independent three bedroom guest house stands apart from it, bringing the property to eleven bedrooms, nine full baths, three half baths and five fireplaces. There is a pool house with its own entertaining area, a detached fitness space, a heated gunite pool and hot tub, an all weather tennis court, outdoor showers, and an attached garage with three spaces. The primary bedroom is on the first floor, and so is a bathroom. Library, study, office, media room, great room, breakfast area, exercise room and a private guest suite are rooms, not zones of one open plan. The MLS counts the living area at 7,000 square feet. The Suffolk County assessor records 13,708 finished square feet on the parcel.

Alan Wanzenberg is the architect on the expansion and the restoration, work that holds the place in the line of Southampton's country houses instead of breaking with it. The five acres of grounds are Edwina von Gal's. Sweeping lawn, specimen trees, planted gardens and a run of outdoor rooms, composed so the sight lines carry through. The gate is minutes from Cooper's Beach, from the village shops and restaurants, and from the private clubs and the golf.

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