Summertime by the pool: it’s nice if you can get it.
Here are six ways to get the pool, on the market right now.
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74 Harbour Close #74, New Haven
2 bd | 2.5 ba | 1,549 sq ft | $534 HOA | $469,900
This City Point condo in the Harbour Close complex boasts a share of a large outdoor pool and patio overlooking the Long Island Sound, plus a heated indoor pool, a gym, a clubhouse and a short walk to Shell & Bones. The condo itself offers dynamic layers across two floors, with skylights upstairs and a balcony downstairs.
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27 Whippoorwill Lane, Bethany
4 bd | 2.5 ba | 1,765 sq ft | 5.0 ac | $550,000
This angular, textural “architectural gem” designed by Peter Millard, who served on the faculty of the Yale School of Architecture and co-designed New Haven’s Fire Department Headquarters, has a deck that fits both the house and the technically above-ground pool. It also has a big plot of land “surrounded by [other] protected land.”
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58 Middle Haddam Road, East Hampton
5 bd | 2 ba | 2,010 sq ft | 0.7 ac | $699,000
This Revolution-era home in a “bucolic village” has a new “heated Gunite saltwater swimming pool” to go with its wuthering waterfall, babbling brook and Colonial character.
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55 Main Street, East Haddam
3 bd | 2.5 ba | 2,302 sq ft | 0.85 ac | $1,500,000
Perched high on a bank of the Connecticut River, this fully furnished pre-Civil War home “blends Federal and... Greek Revival architecture with modern updates”—including an ovular pool long enough for laps, with views worth soaking in.
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Potato Island, Branford
4 bd | 3.5 ba | 3,871 sq ft | 1.1 ac | $4,399,000
This bright and airy home on a private island is balanced by a large heated pool pointed at the sunrise and a small hot tub facing the sunset. And the asking price was recently cut by $551,000.
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11 Beachside Common, Westport
5 bd | 7 ba | 14,038 sq ft | 2.6 ac | $6,950,000
Its street name aside, there’s nothing common about this incomparably eccentric and conceptual “Westport icon.” “Originally built in 1971, the home underwent a $13M transformation under acclaimed architect James Biber of Pentagram. The goal: not to create rooms, but to dissolve them. Nearly 9,000 sq ft of open, gallery-like living space is unified by a 150-ft handmade tile path that runs the length of the main level. A soaring central room with exposed aluminum column is flanked by playful architectural elements—domes, portholes, skylight tubes, and a floating staircase. A 3-story ‘tower,’ designed as the intellectual center of the home, offers 360-degree panoramic views and quiet workspace.” And, of course, there’s a pool—an extremely colorful one, covered end-to-end in a riot of decorative tiles and set beneath a long peaked skylight and zigzagging timber.
Every pool’s at least a zig, but this one? Easily a zag.
Written by Dan Mims. Images sourced from the linked real estate listings.
