Landscape designer Scott Mitchell still remembers the first time he saw the 13.5-acre Sagaponack Road property in Bridgehampton, on the east end of Long Island.
Photography via Bespoke Real Estate.
Meanwhile, Hollywood flipper Sandy Gallin re-envisioned the old farmhouse as a 6,600-square-foot mansion with six bedrooms and a freestanding one-bedroom guesthouse.
A 1,200-foot ribbon driveway paved with gravel curves gently as it approaches the house.
At the edge of a 37,000-square-foot manmade pond is a heated gunite swimming pool; the two were built at the same time.
“You put the pool in first, and then you build the pond around it, treating the both as built structures,” says Mitchell.
The pool is surrounded by walls of dry-stacked Pennsylvania fieldstone.
Slate pavers are jointed with turf grass.
A hammock and shady seating beckon from the pond’s opposite shore.
An ozone system is an alternative to chlorine to keep water clean in the infinity pool.
“We wanted the pond to be close to the houses, but the location and shape of it were informed by the property’s existing environmental sensitive issues,” says Mitchell.
Indigenous grasses grow alongside the dock.
On the other side of the pond, wooded acreage covers most of the property.
Next to the dock, an arbor shades a deck adjacent to a 41-square-foot one-story guesthouse.
Wisteria vines cover the arbor.
The guesthouse has an outdoor fireplace.
Garden designer Jane Lappin of Wainscott Farms worked with Mitchell to lay out the garden beds and design a planting scheme.
At the main house, a porch has a covered dining area also flanked by mature wisteria vines.
The covered porch shelters the woodpile and does double duty as an open-air mudroom.
At the edge of the property is an orchard.
The property’s fences and gates are constructed of cedar.
An aerial view of the 13.5-acre property.
For more information about the house, see the listing at Bespoke Realty.