357 Stanwich Rd
This is a great older house sitting on an acre-and-a-half at the corner of Stanwich and Cognewaugh. It was originally priced at $2.850 but today it’s down to $1.795, which makes it look pretty attractive to me. It’s assessment is just $1.2 million but I’m guessing the 2004 renovation wasn’t picked up for that valuation. Nice house, nice yard and now, a nice price.
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2004 renovation?
Listing website has no pix of kitchen or baths in this 1900 Victorian.
Which can only mean, cue “Psycho” music.
This looks very much like my taste. Now, if it were just a little lower into my range…
How’s $1.525 work for you?
I do like the grounds. And a Cos Cob zip to boot, right CF? Cherry.
Ah, does it? That would explain the low assessment.
Low assessment, Stanwich Road straight into town and North Street School. Doesn’t get better than this.
I agree, Stan.
It’s a Greenwich zip, 06830, of course.
I was kidding, Stump, just to get a rise out of Cos Cobber.
But of course its not in 06830. Just check the address on google maps or
http://maps.huge.info/zip.htm
Cos Cobber, it looks to me as if Stanwich is in 06830, and since the U.S. Post Office thinks it is, that’s good enough for me.
Stump, let me guess, your the list agent. Am I Right?
Of course the PO is going to deliver that letter regardless of what town and zip you use. Why load it on to the truck and drive past the house for a technicality.
Standwich Road is a border zip road. Lower Standwich is 100% in Gwich, but from Cat Rock to Guinea Road, the entire east side is in the Cos Cob zip. Thats a fact. 357 is on the right side of the road, hence Cos Cob.
357 is set far off Stanwich, and I suspected it was technically in CC, although the disingenuous realtor showing the house insisted it was a Greenwich address. The property is nice, except one of the neighbors behind you is a little too close for comfort. I’m not sure what ‘renovations’ were done in 2004. The kitchen was done in the mid-1980s and while a revelation then (it was featured in home design magazines), the French country look is quite dated. The bedrooms on the 2nd floor are unusable for anyone who requires larger than a twin bed, and the 3rd floor is quite a hike, and the bathrooms date from the Cold War Era. The basement can be accessed from the outside only, the garage is falling down, privacy is marginal at best, and since the 3rd floor must be used for bedrooms, there’s no attic. This is a tear down at best.
What you consider a tear down, Brother Brooks, is a charming find to someone else. Lots of us love old houses and gladly put up with their quirks. Others can’t live that way and certainly don’t want to, which is fine. Plenty of houses to chose from to suit your taste and mine. What would be horrible is to live in one of those 500 – acre California tract developments where every home is either “The Sacajawia”, “The Redwood” or “Hearst Castle”. Ugh.
Here’s the deal, CC – the Post Office will not deliver mail to an address that uses a Cos Cob zip and “Greenwich” address – very funny story years ago in the WSJ about the fight going on between snooty residents and proud Cos Cob mail carriers. The Cos Cob stigma attaches only to the zip – if a house sends kids to North Street School and has a (legitimate) Greenwich mailing address, the fact that it “should” be in Cos Cob is irrelevant and its price is unaffected.
I get mislabeled mail with a Greenwich town name here in the heart of the Cob…but anyway.
This zip code stupidity reminds me of a survey I did for one of Society’s finest on Farms Road in Stamford, by a fair stretch east from the Town Line. I sent the bill be didn’t get paid.
When I followed up, the client curtly told me that she lived in Greenwich, and until I billed her at her (same) address in Greenwich, I wouldn’t be paid.
Yes, Inland, a familiar tale. I’m told that, upon awakening each morning, I would decide what animal:lion, tiger, bear, whatever, I was that day and would therafter respond only to, say, “Mr. Bear” rather than Christopher. Of course I grew out of that by my fourth birthday- some aren’t so lucky.
Wow IS…backcountry snobbery at its finest.
Maybe the Post Office could raise $ by selling the right to use 06830 and 06831 to out of towners.
I have this vague recollection a few years back when someone bought a house and sued because he was told it came with an 06830 zip and it didn’t! Does anyone else remember this? It was hysterical. So very Greenwich.
1.525 is getting closer. But, while I love historical homes, and would prefer to do updates myself, I’m a bit concerned about what Brooks mentioned about the basement and garage Hmmmm….
I don’t understand the big deal about the zipcode between Cos Cob and Greenwich….what diff does it make, in reality?
Does this mean you are now permanently Mr. Bear?
I actually saw this house – the grounds are beautiful, but the house itself has many this “old house” type issues including floors and staircases that are sloping in numerous places.
So it is charming, if you are into that sort of thing. Also, there was an infestation of, of all things, ladybugs in the master bathroom when I saw it.
I’m predicting that it will go for between 1.5 and 1.6…