THE LOCATION:
90 miles west of Boston; 37 miles from Bradley International Airport; 2 miles from Mount Holyoke College; 10 miles from Northampton (Smith College) and Amherst (Amherst College, the University of Massachusetts, and Hampshire College). The South Hadley Fire Station is approximately 1 mile away as is the Post Office.

THE LAND:
77 acres. Approximately 25 acres open, level, and cleared used for house, barn complex, paddocks, roads and hay fields; 35 acres rolling and hilly hay fields; 16 acres of woods. The land is bounded by streams and woods on three sides and a windbreak of approximately 400 Norway spruce trees on the remaining side. This property is very private. The legal street address is 231 Hadley Street, South Hadley The actual entrance is from another street.

The previous owner had a landing strip for a small airplane. There is room to land a he1icopter near the house. From the property, one can see towers of Mount Holyoke College, Mt. Tom Ski Area, and the Summit House on the Mount Holyoke range at Skinner State Park.

THE HOUSE:
The exterior of the house, built in 1985, is similar to The Witch House of Salem, MA (1642) The first floor has attached two-car garage, slate foyer inside front entrance, kitchen with Rutt cherry cabinetry and separate eating area, bathroom with shower, laundry with laundry chute from second floor , formal dining room , formal 1iving room with beamed ceiling and fireplace, family room with fireplace, small outdoor screened porch off the family room. Many closets and much recessed lighting. Oak woodwork in most first floor rooms. Wall to wall carpeting in most rooms.

The second floor has three bedrooms, two baths (one with gymnasium-type shower and the other with tub-shower combination). One bedroom is used as a library with concealed laundry chute to the first-floor laundry in a oak floor to ceiling bookcase and cabinet. There is a spacious foyer, one walk-in closet in master bedroom, one cedar closet, and four other closets on the second floor. Woodwork is partially oak and partially poplar. All rooms are large and interior spaces are airy.

The third floor has approximately 1,200 sq. ft. with heating/cooling, plumbing, electrical and central vacuum to the floor but nothing installed. There is room for an apartment on the third floor or an additional three bedrooms and a bathroom.

The basement is unfinished with 2" x 4" framing and insulation in the walls with foundation walls higher than normal to accommodate a suspended ceiling if it were finished. It is currently used as a workshop. There is a third chimney flue if a wood stove were desired .

2" x 6" framing throughout to accommodate extra insulation. Two closeable air pipes to each fireplace were built in to provide enough air to allow combustion in the fireplaces. Central vacuum system extending to the third floor. Pella windows throughout.

There are two finished staircases to the basement and one finished staircase to the third floor. There are two electric heat pumps and two over-sized electric heating/air conditioning/air filtration systems. One system is in the basement for the first floor and basement if needed. The other system is on the third floor and takes care of the second floor and could take care of the third floor upon finishing it. The house has a new (2003 installed) Tamko 50-year Heritage AR roof, lightning rods and outside spot lights. Smoke alarms are wired in to the South Hadley Fire Department. Security system is wired in to the South Hadley Police Department. There is a satellite dish behind the barn complex not visible from the front of the house. Town water, septic system, all electric is underground, and cable TV is in to the transformer hidden by shrubs in front of the house. No expenses or details were spared in building this house.

THE BARN COMPLEX:
The horse barn is 40' x 80' and is connected to a 60' x 200' indoor arena which is connected to a 20' x 80' storage barn. The buildings form a "C" shaped complex whose open side faces the house. The whole barn complex is built on a gravel pad that is 16" above grade to allow adequate drainage of rain and melting snow. The horse barn is of pole barn construction and has ten 12' x 12' stalls made of Southern yellow pine with black iron bars and sliding doors. The walls between stalls #1 & #2 and between stalls #9 & #10 are removable to be used as foaling stalls .and stall #1 has two infra-red lights wired in to provide heat if a foal were born in cold weather. Stalls and the 16' aisle are gravel, sand and stone dust. Eight stalls have rubber stall mats. There is a 12' x 14' heated tack room with a 30 gallon hot water heater and a tankless hot water heater. There is a 10' x 12' wash/grooming stall with a cement floor, hot and cold running water, and a drain. The tact room and the grooming stall have cement floors and are finished in Southern yellow pine. There is a hay loft that holds 1,500 bales of hay, hay drops into each stall, and finished staircases to the loft. There are fluorescent lights throughout and five frost-free hydrants in the aisle on two separate water lines. There is an insect control system with a timer and there are nozzles in each stall and over every exterior door in the horse barn. There are two side fire doors with a 4' width between stalls #2 & #3 and between stall #10 and the grooming stall. There is a storage area under one of the staircases to one side of the hayloft.

The arena has a gravel, sand and stone dust floor , copious fluorescent lighting and a frost-free hydrant. There is a 4' high plywood wall, around the interior of the arena that is painted with white industrial gloss paint. There is a built-in review stand with removable seats in one corner. There are six large sliding doors and one passage door to the outside. There is a blacktop manure pit with huge cement block walls behind the arena near the satellite dish.

The storage barn has three overhead doors, one passage door to the outside, one sliding door to the outside, and a large sliding door to the arena. It has water and electricity (lights and a frost-free hydrant) and the windows are spaced so that an additional six 12' x 12' stalls could be built in this barn. Current use is storage of a horse trailer, a tractor, carts and a sleigh, and bagged bedding in this barn.

A main water line enters the barn and divides into four lines after passing through a pressure reducer. The first water line feeds the frost-free hydrant in the storage barn. The second 1ine feeds the two hydrants on the right side of the horse barn aisle and a hydrant in the arena. The third line feeds three hydrants on the left side of the horse barn aisle. The fourth line feed hydrants at the two larger paddocks. There are large security lights on a photocell all around the barn complex. There are heat coils in the valleys of the horse barn to prevent ice and snow buildup. The barn complex has its own electric meter and lightning rods. The barn complex is completely landscaped with trees and shrubs.

There are two large paddocks and one small paddock. All paddocks have 4" x 6" pressure treated posts that are 3'in the ground and 5' above ground. They are 8' on center. The fences are 5' high with four rails of 2" x 6" spruce. They are stained to match the house. The small paddock is about 60' x 120' and is placed in the "C" in the center of the barn complex. It is used for mothers and newborns primarily. The paddock nearest the horse barn (approximately 20' away) is 200' x 650' and the paddock further away (approximately 240' away) is 200' x 750'. Each of the larger paddocks has its own frost-free hydrant and a fenced sugar maple tree in the center. The paddocks are on the 1eve1 part of the property.

There is a road that goes around the circumference of the level 25 acres that is .75 miles long. It has four cross roads (approximately .5 miles) that result in five loops off the outside road. The loops are of increasing complexity in terms of turns and changes in grade and provide an excellent training facility for teaching a horse to drive. All training can be done without 1eaving the property. The roads are all 16' wide and were constructed by removing the underlying loam, replacing it with gravel, and toping it off with 4" of stone dust. The entire road system is so well drained that it can be used almost immediately after a rainstorm.

Everything is very well thought out, lovingly built and extremely well maintained. This is indeed a very special property.

$1,600,000

Contact Steve Feldman for more information
(413) 548-9233 or feldman@agentfeldman.com