Address: 4909 Congress Street
City: Fairfield
State: CT
ZIP: 06824
MLS #: 99145501
Style: Colonial
Year Built: 1956
Square Feet: 6,230
Bedrooms: 5
Bathrooms: 7 Full & 1 Partial
Fireplace: 3
Garage: 3 Car Attached
Basement: Crawl Space, Heated, Interior Access, Part Finished
Additional Features:
Colonial, Greenfield Hill, Pool, Pool House, Premier Homes Collection
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Quintessential Connecticut Country Estate
Reprinted from The Fairfield Citizen –
“Travelling along scenic Congress Street in the Greenfield Hill section of town is like driving down country roads in Europe, passing by many attractive and impressive estates.
Among them is the 4-acre gated property at 4909 Congress Street, the site of a 5,826 square foot English Country house. Small heated barn, custom in-ground salt swimming pool with fountains, stone pool house, courtyard and formal gardens surrounded by stone and red brick walls reminiscent of those in the English countryside.
The interior was created with a timeless design with modern living in mind. This house will age graciously. Only the interior decorating will need to change to suit the taste of the next owners. The architectural bones of the house will not need alteration.
The front door, which features hand-made, leaded sidelights, leads to the front-to-back center hall. The formal living room has the original fireplace with a honed granite surround and dentil and other molding details. So artistically and architecturally thought-out was this design that the decorative crown molding continues onto the ceiling.
The large, custom chef’s kitchen and eat-in area, Carrera marble counters and slab backsplash, French hand-made farm sink, polished nickel scullery hardware and a large center island with a breakfast bar for three. It also has a beverage center and a small butlers pantry. In addition to the eat-in portion of the kitchen there is another breakfast room, which could double as a sun- room. Stainless steel appliances include a Viking Professional six-burner range with griddle; 48-inch Sub-Zero refrigerator and two dishwashers to handle all the entertaining that will go on at this house.
The kitchen is open to the family room, which has a fireplace and gracefully arched entranceways into the breakfast room in one direction and a small study in the other. The study has a wall of built-in bookshelves and French doors to the backyard. There is a also a larger second floor office.
Upstairs, there are four bedrooms, all en suite. All the baths in the house are either marble or natural stone. There is a fifth bedroom with its own full bath in the finished walk-up attic.
The master bedroom suite has a coffered ceiling and a balcony. The master bath has a limestone floor with marble tile inserts, a soaking tub, and a walk-in limestone shower.
Outside, there are brick and stone walkways. The stone pool is heated and has hot and cold running water and electricity. It also has a full bath, changing room, cherry floors, and a kitchenette with black granite counters, stainless farm sink, and Jenn-Air refrigerator and dishwasher. It also has a cupola and stately Ionic columns, mirroring the main house.
The barn is also heated and has electricity, running hot and cold water and a lower level for storage.
The landscaping was recently improved with expansive lawns, mature trees, perennial flowers and many hedges.“
