The Record Says 1740
Stony Hill Farm sits in the Town of East Hampton, on the north side of Amagansett, and the MLS record dates the frame to 1740. That is the earliest date on file. The next one is 2017, the renovation year the same record carries, and what sits between the two is landscape rather than chronology. The ground here is agricultural and equestrian and has stayed that way, which is why the name still describes the place. Rolling fields, protected reserve, open sky, and a house set high enough to see all of it.
Cedar Shingle Above the Reserve
A gated drive under trees, with a second gate for service, climbs to about 8,556 square feet of cedar shingle standing at the top of the rise. Five fireplaces, hardwood floors, and porches on three counts, covered, enclosed and open. The kitchen opens into a living room with several sets of French doors onto a screened porch, and past it a formal living room with a reading nook over the reserve, a sunroom, and a wall of French doors onto the dining patio. A study, a sitting room and a mudroom finish the first floor. Four bedrooms sit above, the primary with a fireplace, a sitting area, two baths and separate walk-in closets. The basement is full and finished, with a media room, a wet bar, a full bath and a bedroom that walks out to grade.
Fields That Cannot Be Built
The parcel runs 5.06 acres and looks over a further 3.22 acres of agricultural reserve, which is the reason the view stays a field. The heated gunite pool runs twenty by fifty feet facing west, with a spa beside it and a 625 square foot pavilion anchored on a fieldstone fireplace. Lawn, a fenced vegetable garden, a cabana, a shed and a detached two-car garage complete the ground, and the record notes room for tennis. The property adjoins Balsam Farm and the Amagansett trail system, which puts miles of riding and walking trails at the edge of it, and Atlantic Avenue and Indian Wells beaches are a few minutes away.
