West Wind Hill: A Stone-and-Shingle Estate on 391 Acres in Kent

Known as West Wind Hill, 33 Nodine Pasture Road is a stone-and-shingle house built in 1991 on a plateau in the Macedonia section of Kent. The listing says the architect camped on the site before construction to orient the house for light and views through the seasons, and that the stone, including the 20-foot fireplace in the great room, was quarried from the hilltop where the house sits.

The house is 10,549 square feet, with 8,919 above ground and 1,630 finished below. It has 6 bedrooms, 5 full baths, and 3 half baths. Floors are reclaimed chestnut, and the millwork is hand-detailed, with French doors and windows throughout. The great room has vaulted ceiling.

The kitchen has an island, a pantry, and its own stone hearth. There is a paneled library, a den with a fireplace, a billiard room, a media room on the lower level, and a wine cellar with a tasting room. The primary suite is in a private wing of the main level, with a full bath and a walk-in closet. The other 5 bedrooms are upstairs, along with a 725-square-foot recreation room. A 3-car garage is attached.

A private, gated drive winds past stone walls, meadow, and a pond. The grounds have a heated stone-and-gunite pool and a pool house with a full kitchen. There are 2 stone barns, hiking trails, and open meadows. The 391 acres are made up of the house parcel, 5 additional Connecticut parcels the listing calls "unencumbered," and acreage across the state line in New York.

Macedonia was once a commercial and farming settlement, with cider, grist, and saw mills and an iron furnace that closed in 1865, according to Connecticut’s park service. Macedonia Brook State Park, 2,300 acres less than a mile east of the New York border, began with a 1,552-acre gift from the White Memorial Foundation in 1918. Its Macedonia Ridge Trail has views of the Taconic Range and the Catskills from Cobble Mountain.

33 Nodine Pasture Road, Kent (CT) is listed at $7,400,000, offered by Stephen Pener and Vanessa Henderson at William Pitt Sotheby’s International Realty.