Stone Ridge · Active
2240 Old Mill Farm Road
$1,450,000
4 bd · 3 ba · 3,100 sq ft · 38 ac · Built 1810
The farm
Stone house, 1810. Two feet of fieldstone at the base of the walls, a little less at the top. Bank barn into the slope behind it. A spring-fed pond. Twenty-two acres of hay, fourteen of woods, and the rest is house, yard and lane. It has been a working farm for most of its life and it still is, in the sense that a neighbor cuts the hay twice a year, which is what keeps the property under agricultural assessment.
The house is center-hall, five bays across, with the kitchen in the old one-story wing on the north end, where the summer kitchen used to be. Wide pine floors throughout. Beams in the kitchen are hand-hewn chestnut. Two stone fireplaces on the main floor, both working, both lined. Deep window seats, because the walls are deep. The 1970s owners added a bathroom wing on the back in frame, sided to match; it's not original but it's well done.
Updates that matter: drilled well 2016, 380 feet, 8 gallons a minute. Septic replaced 2009, engineered system, pumped 2024. Electric upgraded to 200 amps in 2013. Roof on the house is standing-seam metal, 2015. Boiler 2018. The fieldstone foundation is damp in spring, like every stone house in the county; there's a perimeter drain on the uphill side and a sump.
Barn, pond, fields
Bank barn is 40 by 60. Upper level enters from the hill side, the way bank barns do, with a drive floor and two hay mows. Lower level is stone on three sides, opens to the south, used to be stalls; now it holds a tractor and the current owners' firewood. The slate roof on the barn was patched in 2021 and has maybe ten years left before it needs real money. I'll say that plainly because it's the biggest item on this property.
There's also a 1940s equipment shed and a small chicken house that has seen better decades.
The pond is about three-quarters of an acre, spring-fed, eleven feet at the deep end. Swimmable. The owners stock it with bass. The hay fields are bordered by stone walls and run up to a wooded ridge on the west side. There's a mown trail around the perimeter, about a mile and a half.
About the ag exemption
The hay fields are leased to a neighboring farmer on a handshake-plus-paper arrangement that renews every year. Because of that, about 30 acres are assessed as farmland, and the tax bill is roughly a third lower than it would be otherwise. If you keep the land in production, the assessment can continue. If you take it out of farming, New York charges a payback on part of the taxes that were saved. Your attorney will walk you through the details. The farmer has said he'd like to keep cutting.
Room by room
- Center hall
- Original stair, 14-inch pine boards.
- Living room
- 17 × 18, stone fireplace, window seats.
- Dining room
- 16 × 17, stone fireplace, built-in corner cupboard.
- Kitchen
- In the north wing. Chestnut beams, wood cookstove (decorative) and a propane range, soapstone sink, pantry.
- Mudroom / bath
- Back wing, full bath, laundry.
- Second floor
- Four bedrooms, two full baths (one en suite). Low doors. Mind your head.
- Attic
- Walk-up, unfinished, pegged rafters.
- Cellar
- Fieldstone, partial dirt floor, boiler, root cellar.
Facts
- MLS #
- 251688
- Status
- Active
- Type
- Farm, stone farmhouse
- Year built
- 1810 (rear wing 1970s)
- Interior
- 3,100 sq ft
- Land
- 38 acres: about 22 hay, 14 woods; stone walls; spring-fed pond
- Taxes
- $14,960 (2025, with agricultural assessment; about $21,800 without)
- School district
- A regional district shared with neighboring towns
- Heating
- Oil hot water (boiler 2018), two wood-burning fireplaces
- Cooling
- None. Stone walls do most of the work.
- Electric
- 200-amp (2013)
- Water
- Drilled well, 2016, 380 ft, 8 gpm
- Sewer
- Private septic, engineered, 2009
- Outbuildings
- Bank barn 40 × 60 (slate roof), equipment shed, chicken house
- Road frontage
- About 1,100 ft on Old Mill Farm Road; gravel lane to the house
- HOA
- None
Estimated monthly cost: around $8,700 with 20% down at 6.1%, taxes and insurance included. Farm insurance runs higher than a house policy; get a quote early. Over $1 million, so the 1% mansion tax applies to the buyer: $14,500 at asking.
Stone Ridge
Stone Ridge is a hamlet in the town of Marbletown, along Route 209, with more 18th-century stone houses per mile than anywhere I know. The hamlet has a library, a small grocery, a couple of places to eat and a farm stand on every second road in summer. Kingston is 20 minutes. New Paltz is 25. The Catskills start just to the west, and the rail trail runs through nearby High Falls. Nights are dark. You'll hear coyotes in February.
Set up a walk
Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed. Acreage per deed and survey; verify.