Taconic antique coming up for sale

295 Taconic Road will be coming on the market later this week, priced at $3.250 Million. The listing agent provides the following description which, from when I toured it with a potential buyer back in 2011, seems accurate:

Welcome to the Brush-Lockwood House, an anchor of significant antique homes in the Stanwich Historic District and a notable Greenwich Landmark. Poised on 5.2 acres, this impressive eight-bedroom residence spans four levels with well-scaled rooms ideal for casual living and entertaining complemented by original board/batten barn, octagonal gazebo and hundred year old trees. Built in 1792 and extensively renovated in 1867 with Second Empire style craftsman details including Mansard roof, frosted glass front doors etched with star motif, wide-plank floors, ornate plaster ceiling medallions in entry, living and dining rooms, six-over-six windows, turned balustrades and jigsaw-cut ornamentation. One of the last authentic historic homes in Greenwich. With design plans for renovation/expansion.Agent to Agent Rmrks: The sellers have done significant work to the property: structural engineering on both the house and the barn, drainage upgrades, septic regenerated, new mechanicals, all wood rot repaired, dormers rebuilt, new slate roof & gutters on both house & barn, upgraded electrical, all original windows restored. This leaves only cosmetic work for the buyer to make it their own!

Judging from its current pictures, “Only cosmetic work needed to complete” seems a tad optimistic, but the important stuff has been done. It was a wreck when Ogilvy tried to get $3.2 for it in 2010, and was still in that condition when Brad Hvolbeck found a buyer for it — these owners — in 2014, when it sold for $1.650. Fabulous 5-acres, with barn.