#6 Main Street | Amherst, New Hampshire

Beautiful, elegant, charming, private, prominent, comfortable are the words that are most used to describe this 1801 antique home located on the village green in Amherst, New Hampshire. Enjoy one of the finest properties in Amherst, in the heart of beautiful and prestigious Amherst Village. This home is both centrally located right on the village green, but is also very quiet and private with a beautiful fenced in back yard, gorgeous gardens and lots of private family space. It is truly one of the finest locations and homes in Amherst, known and appreciated by all.

The outside of the home is surrounded by beautiful gardens and multiple spaces. The front of the lot presents a classic, elegant face to the street. The drive is lined with curved grassy areas bordered by large gardens with flowing trees, bushes and plants, designed to provide color and blooming from spring through fall. The utility area for supplies and gardening is tucked behind a row of hemlocks for privacy and screening. The fenced in back yard is quiet, private, has a beautiful old apple tree as a focal point and is the perfect place for an afternoon nap in the hammock. It too is lined with beautiful and scented flowing trees, bushes and plants.

This home has been impeccably maintained with many of the major maintenance aspects redone by the current owners including a new furnace with forced hot water heat, new 80 gallon hot water tank, 100% new roofing on the entire house and barn with 30 year architectural shingles, professional exterior paint, two fully remodeled baths upstairs with marble and custom tile, new fencing, 100% of the lawn and gardens covered with automatic sprinkler system, complete interior painting and window treatments. Every window in the home is original, but has had custom brass weather stripping installed to make them efficient and tight. The huge three bay two story barn is also original, and has been largely renovated with a heated woodworking shop in one complete bay. Enjoy the charm and elegance of the spacious rooms in this wonderful antique home with all the work already done!

Inside much of the flooring, woodwork, plaster walls, doors and hardware are original. The rooms are unusually large for an antique home of this period.

The kitchen with modern appliances, wide pine flooring and the huge colonial fireplace is central to the home. It is big enough for a large kitchen table, and a sitting area in front of the beautiful fireplace. A second rear stairway goes from the kitchen to the rear bedrooms upstairs. Built in corner cabinets in the kitchen, dining room and living room provide lots of storage and beautiful display shelves. The kitchen is perfectly situated as the center of the home – and separates the elegant formal spaces in the front of the home from the more casual living spaces. The kitchen is large enough to be the perfect room for entertaining guests or for family gatherings. It has two doors, one to the driveway with a beautiful old brick walkway, and one onto a fully screened in porch, perfect for summer dining.

The porch overlooks beautiful gardens that attract all sorts of birds in the summer, and with an active herb garden. A patio off the porch is tucked into a quiet private space overlooking the garden, with more room for outdoor dining, barbequing or just relaxing at the end of a long day.

The front of the house is a two story colonial structure with two large rooms on each floor and a central hallway.

A large formal living room space with room for piano, large comfortable chairs and a wonderful view of the village green. Again, elegant window treatments can be completely opened for light and to view the green, or closed for privacy.

A large formal dining room with a beautiful chandelier and corner built in cabinet, floor to ceiling drapes and custom paint make for elegant formal dining for eight. Another large colonial fireplace, fully functional, graces this beautiful dining space.

Tucked at the end of the hallway is a smaller, but very cozy bedroom with private ¾ bath. This space is private, bright and cheery, and would make the perfect au pair or in law bedroom.

At the opposite end of the house, in the rear from the central kitchen is a vanity with hidden washer and dryer, a large mudroom with separate entrance from the driveway, and in the very rear of the first floor overlooking the private back yard is a huge 19 X 25 foot family room with cathedral ceiling.

The painting of this room is a work of art. The ceiling is blue sky ceiling, and spring, summer, fall and winter scenes are in each corner of the room. A full wet bar is hidden behind louvered doors at one end of the room, a fully functional fireplace is central to the room opposite a large beautiful bay window with shelf for plants or display items, and a 100% wool wall to wall carpet makes this large room warm and comfortable. It is the perfect informal family space, but can also be the perfect room for entertaining.

Upstairs are two large bedrooms in the front of the house. The elegant master suite with private bath features one full closet and a large walk in closet off the bath. The bathroom features double vanity, marble countertop, custom tile and painting, Toto toilet with bidet, and a huge shower/steam bath, all done in marble tile.

The other front bedroom is also large and has another working fireplace.

The rear bedroom is a two room suite, one with another functional fireplace. It has adjacent a full bath, remodeled with Toto toilet, tub with shower, corian countertop vanity and marble flooring. Separate heating zones with independent temperature controls are in each upstairs bath.

The lucky owners of this home will enjoy all of the best Amherst has to offer, be in the nicest and most prestigious location in town, and have all the quiet and privacy that a home in the country promises.

For an appointment to view this beautiful historic Amherst, Newa Hampshire home, please call Rudy Mayer at (603) 888-3990 x 228.