Address: 2501 Pocock Road, Fallston
List price: $15 million
Year built: 1929
Real estate agent: Heidi Krauss of Krauss Real Property Brokerage
Last sold price/date: For $6 million on July 15, 2021
Property size: This 12,572-square-foot home includes seven bedrooms, plus seven full bathrooms and three half bathrooms, resting on a sprawling, 246.75-acre lot.
Unique features: For nearly 100 years, Harford Hill Farm has been part of Maryland fox-hunting history. Located in the steeplechase country of My Lady’s Manor in southern Harford County, the mansion was built by S. Bryce Wing, former president of the National Steeplechase Association and longtime Master of the Harford Hunt.
Not surprisingly, Harford Hill contains everything that the most discerning equestrian could desire — two barns with stalls for 19 horses between them, one newly remodeled and one classic “carriage” barn. There’s also a a tack room, a separate barn for tractors and other equipment, fenced-in paddocks, and a new, 150-by-200-foot riding arena.
But that doesn’t exhaust this property’s amenities. There’s a 5,438-square-foot “party barn” that can seat dozens and that exudes a rustic elegance, an outdoor swimming pool with gorgeous views of the surrounding hills at sunrise and sunset, a private pond, and an attached, six-car garage.
The stately red-brick home’s interior offers such gracious touches as six fireplaces, many with carved surrounds, while doors and walls boast elaborate moldings. There is the quintessential wood-paneled library, an invitingly curving central staircase, fanlights above doors and a wet bar.
The estate includes several outdoor patios for warm-weather entertaining and other outdoor enclosures that could house animals from chickens to goats to dogs.
The new owners will surely want to picnic beneath the property’s magnificent copper beech tree, its branches spread in a wide embrace.
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