Five acres, in town
887 Weed Street is a five-bedroom colonial of 11,184 square feet on five gated acres in New Canaan, across from Irwin Park and bordering the trail network of the New Canaan Nature Center. The grounds hold a heated pool and spa with a pool house, a tennis court and a separate 1,450-square-foot guest cottage with its own generator.
The listing credits Hobbs Construction with the design and execution of the house and says its interiors were originally appointed by Alexa Hampton. It was built in 2000 and has a slate roof, three attached garage bays and radiant heated floors, and the listing says it is now staged for sale.
A gate between two stone piers opens to a drive lined with clipped hedge and boxwood. The front door is black lacquer, set in fluted pilasters, and it opens to a hall with a curved stair, a black rail over white balusters and a plaid runner.
The house
The living room has a fireplace and French doors that open to a screened porch with a blue-painted beadboard ceiling and a brick floor. Another room is paneled and papered in blue, with a fire and a papered ceiling, and the dining room is papered in brown botanical with a crystal chandelier. The kitchen has a marble island, a second island topped in wood, a pot rack and a fireplace, and it opens through an arch to a breakfast room.
There are six full baths and two half baths. The primary bedroom has a bay with a curved sofa, a fireplace and a walk-in closet, and the bath has a tub set into a paneled surround under a window and a shower with two rain heads. Under the roof are bedrooms and a playroom with sloped ceilings, built-in shelves and skylights, some papered across the slope in blue.
The grounds and the cottage
From the terrace the lawn steps down a fieldstone wall to a pool enclosed by hedge on three sides, with a round spa and a pool house under a pergola at the far end. The tennis court is above the pool in the trees, and the listing adds landscape lighting, irrigation, mature plantings and full deer fencing.
The guest cottage has a cupola, a covered porch under a striped awning and a living room with a vaulted ceiling and a band of clerestory windows. Inside are a loft gallery and a kitchen with an island. The agent's own site describes it as a three-bedroom guest house.
