The Story
Thirteen acres on Mt. Holly Road in the town of Bedford (12.83 on the record), with a 1935 fieldstone house at the center and the meadow running out from it to old stone walls and an apple orchard. The main house is gutted and needs a complete renovation: the fieldstone walls and the weathered cedar roof stand, the septic and electrical are in, and the listing is plain that the interiors are to be made new inside the original stone. A stone barn with an apartment and a second outbuilding stand across the lawn, a pool sits beside the house, and the listing puts twenty acres of preserved land on the boundary.
Jonah Holly was the first settler of the area, and his descendants farmed around Mount Holly from 1795; all but the steepest ground stayed in pasture into the early twentieth century. In 1975 the Nature Conservancy, with local residents, bought 209 acres on the west side of Mt. Holly Road from the estate of Edward A. Norman; the Lewisboro Land Trust holds those acres now, with bedrock rising to 621 feet under chestnut, black and red oak. Whether the twenty preserved acres in the listing are a piece of that ground or another parcel is not on the record we read.
The house and the barn
The house is two stories of fieldstone under the cedar roof, with three gabled dormers on the drive side, a capped stone chimney, a bay window on the lawn side and an arched doorway with a white door off a cobbled landing. The record carries six bedrooms, three and a half baths and 3,285 square feet from before the gut; the one interior photographed is rubble stone walls, bare joists and a joiner's bench under a barn pendant. The barn is stone under wood shingles with a louvered cupola and a weathervane, a hayloft door and plank doors in the gable, a wide plank door on the drive and a brick chimney at one end, and it holds the apartment.
The walls are dry-laid fieldstone and they run through the meadow and up to the house, where one holds a millstone set on edge beside the drive and another carries a wrought-iron fence and a bell. The meadow is left long and mown into one path. The listing puts the villages of Katonah and Bedford minutes away and Manhattan under an hour. The property last changed hands in March 2024, in what the public record marks as a multi-property sale.
