Price cut on Clapboard Ridge

201 Clapboard Ridge — the Round Hill end of the street — has dropped from $8.250 million to $7.980. 10,000 sq.ft. on five acres, much of which is wetlands, the property it sits on had a difficult time selling back eight years ago, starting at $3.295 in October 2012 and finally selling for $1.525 in 2017. So far, the house that’s resulted has also been slow to find a buyer.

But I liked the land, and there was enough useable area to afford a decent yard so there’s plenty of room for the homeowner and his pet mosquitos to coexist.

Just as an aside, I wonder how long the black window farmhouse look will stay popular, and what will replace it? I’m guessing that all these houses are going to look dated a decade from now, but that’s not unusual: kitchens and baths installed in 2000 looked hopelessly old fashioned by 2010. So it goes.