List Price: $1,280,000 | $306 per sq.ft. | 5 Bedroom | 5 Bathroom | 2 Story Single Family Home
Date Listed Monday Apr 20, 2026 | MLS# 5084371
Date Listed Monday Apr 20, 2026 | MLS# 5084371
Lady Astor Gate
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Address: 4 Elm Hill Road Peterborough NH
Listed by Jason Hackler Duston Leddy Real Estate Cell: 603-321-0777
Description:
Named Highwood when built by the Van Rensselaer family in the 1920s, this remarkable home features a great room recreated from an 18th-century church. With vaulted ceilings, carved paneling, custom plaster walls, a choir loft, Gothic windows, and a Dutch door opening to a three-season porch, the space feels like a theater transporting you to another era. Italian sconces, 18th-century paintings inset into the paneling, soaring ceilings, and a wood-burning fireplace enhance its grandeur. Between 2016 and 2018, the home was thoughtfully expanded and renovated, blending historic character with modern comfort. Highwood now offers an open-concept kitchen flowing to dining and family rooms, French doors to an office, and a first-floor primary suite with cathedral ceilings, shower, and claw-foot tub. The kitchen connects to a hallway leading to garages, a yoga studio/playroom, and a deck and patio. A garage lift/elevator provides easy access for groceries or a wheelchair. Upstairs are four additional bedrooms and two full baths. Set on over three acres bordering conservation land, the property includes low-maintenance gardens, stone walls, a fenced street side for privacy, and a hand-wrought cast-iron gate--an original housewarming gift from Lady Astor to Mrs. Van Rensselaer. Please see virtual tour. Listing agent related to seller.
Listed by Jason Hackler Duston Leddy Real Estate Cell: 603-321-0777
Description:
Named Highwood when built by the Van Rensselaer family in the 1920s, this remarkable home features a great room recreated from an 18th-century church. With vaulted ceilings, carved paneling, custom plaster walls, a choir loft, Gothic windows, and a Dutch door opening to a three-season porch, the space feels like a theater transporting you to another era. Italian sconces, 18th-century paintings inset into the paneling, soaring ceilings, and a wood-burning fireplace enhance its grandeur. Between 2016 and 2018, the home was thoughtfully expanded and renovated, blending historic character with modern comfort. Highwood now offers an open-concept kitchen flowing to dining and family rooms, French doors to an office, and a first-floor primary suite with cathedral ceilings, shower, and claw-foot tub. The kitchen connects to a hallway leading to garages, a yoga studio/playroom, and a deck and patio. A garage lift/elevator provides easy access for groceries or a wheelchair. Upstairs are four additional bedrooms and two full baths. Set on over three acres bordering conservation land, the property includes low-maintenance gardens, stone walls, a fenced street side for privacy, and a hand-wrought cast-iron gate--an original housewarming gift from Lady Astor to Mrs. Van Rensselaer. Please see virtual tour. Listing agent related to seller.
Room Information:
Total Rooms: 14
Total Baths: 5
Full Baths: 2
1/2 Baths: 1
3/4 Baths: 2
Bedrooms: 5
Total Baths: 5
Full Baths: 2
1/2 Baths: 1
3/4 Baths: 2
Bedrooms: 5
Basement: Bulkhead | Concrete Floor | Dirt Floor | Insulated | Interior Stairs | Interior Access
Construction Information:
Year Built: 1920
Type: Shingle Siding
Type: Shingle Siding
Building Info
Finished Sq.Ft.: 4180
Above Grade Sq.Ft.: 4180
Below Grade Sq.Ft.: 0
Apx Below Grade Unfinished Sq.Ft.: 0
Exterior Info
Style: Antique
Exterior Color Slate blue
Roof: Architectural Shingle
Utilities
Electric: 200+ Amp Service | Circuit Breaker(s)
Water: Public
Sewer: Private
Land Description:
Landscaped
Lot size: 3.55 acres
Zoned: residential
Surveyed: Unk
Flood Zone: No
Seasonal: No
Road Frontage: 512
Driveway: Crushed Stone | Paved
Additional Information
Easement - Yes
Block - 13
Taxes $19,782
Assesed Value Not Reported
Easement - Yes
Block - 13
Taxes $19,782
Assesed Value Not Reported
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