Architecture Wednesday

I have kind of always wanted an English Manor House. I love the old architecture and the sense of history, but...living in England? With their warm beer and awful food? Learning to speak the language? I may have to rethink.....
Until I stumbled upon this little cottage. Well, maybe little cottage is wrong, but this home, Garrison Field is its name, is a private oceanfront country estate in Maine, sitting on 14 acres fronting the Atlantic Ocean. It was built in the style of a Cotswolds, England-style country manor house and is clad in smooth sandstone and looks like it's been here since Henry was King.
There are eleven bedrooms, six bath residence, with eight fireplaces, a Great Room presenting a soaring thirty-two foot cathedral ceiling with hammer-beamed arches, carved stone fireplace and triple-tiered lead-pane windows facing the gardens.

And, of course, there is the Great lawn that runs down to the sea. I picture myself, my petticoats fluttering as I run to the sand after a rousing game of croquet. 

The country lifestyle is enhanced with a heated swimming pool in a walled garden courtyard, a seaside conservatory and separate carriage house quarters....for the help, you know, because one simply must have help. 

Located way up in Maine, it is convenient to Cape Elizabeth village, and just five miles to the historic Old Port of Portland with its cultural and business amenities, Garrison Field is a special place in Maine.
Special indeed. And for the low, low price of $6.25 million.

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