37 Maxham Road, Pomfret, VT 05067

Hawk Gate Farm is a 352-acre estate, roughly square in shape, in the hills of South Pomfret. This storied landscape—once five independent farmsteads—embodies the evolution of rural New England from its earliest post-colonial roots to the present day. At its heart stands the Isaac Newton House, a c.1790 Federal-style brick Cape with preserved period detail. Features include finely crafted fireplace mantels, original window and door moldings, delicately beaded baseboards, a brick hearth with a beehive oven, historic staircase and plastered walls, wide-board flooring, and hand-forged hardware. Isaac Newton, one of Pomfret’s earliest settlers, built the home for his wife Betsey and their ten children and raised sheep. A two-bedroom Carriage House, designed in the vernacular of American barns, sits above a spring-fed, five-acre pond. Nearby, a rare high-drive dairy barn dating to circa 1900 still conveys Vermont’s early 20th-century dairy legacy with striking form and integrity. … read more …