East Hill Farm
A private hilltop world, deeply rooted.
East Hill Farm is not a house on land. It is 227 acres of forest, open pasture, paddocks, stone-walled gardens, a 4-acre pond and a late 18th-century barn, arranged around a 1798 Georgian-Federal estate in a way that took two centuries to become what it is.
This is preservation-level integrity without a moment of stiffness. Protected conservation and state forest land to the north and south secure its privacy and quiet for the long term. This is what the Berkshires looks like, given 227 years to become itself.
The Thomas Shepard House
In 1985 the house was taken entirely down to the ground, every post and beam, and rebuilt as it stood in 1798. The original frame was reconstructed from the evidence of its own joinery, a staircase found in the attic, floorboards found in a barn.
Barely perceptible modern systems were woven in. Georgian in form, remarkably livable in spirit. Unusually high ceilings, original wide-board floors, and antique glass that bends the afternoon light.
In conversation with itself
The barn anchors the east field. The pond catches every change of light at the bottom of the pasture. The gardens move you from the domestic to the pastoral without a seam.
A vast former Arabian horse barn now anchors a four-residence compound of remarkable flexibility. Over the past four years, nearly a million dollars has gone into the property, from roofs and chimneys to the gunite pool, tennis court, and guest house.
A property best understood in motion.
At A Glance
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The Property Brochure
Chapin Fish
"East Hill Farm is unlike anything else I have represented in twenty-five years in the Berkshires. I would be glad to walk you through it personally."
