Cobble Court, Estate of the Day
This home in the village of Indian Hill in Cincinnati, Ohio has me smitten for one reason "the Canterbury room." This home built in 1933 has a two-story library wing called the Canterbury room which features raised quotations in stone above the fireplace from Chaucer, Dante and Shakespeare and looks like an English great hall. The home is approximately 13,000 square feet and sits on nine acres. There are nine bedrooms total and the home includes all sorts of stained glass, carved stone and wood details that add to the feeling that this is a treasure from another era. At $8.7 million, it's a high price for the area but this is a truly stunning home right down to the stone carving of the home and its name, Cobble Court, on the wall.
Related: This isn't the only Cobble Court around, check out Cobble Court in Glen Cove, New York, an estate we featured in October 2006.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
K Feb 20th 2008 1:18PM
It's lovely, but I confess I chortled out loud at the swimming pool photos. All that acreage, all that attention to detail, all those millions, and when it's time to cover the pool for winter, "Just throw some cinder blocks on that 'thar tarp and that'll get 'er done." Priceless.
Eric Feb 20th 2008 2:08PM
Just a note - it's Indian Hill, no 's.' We get a little protective of that one.
Interesting to note, when Bush visited this house, security was not amused by our game of capture the flag in the adjacent woods.
Clint Feb 20th 2008 2:22PM
I require a tire swing on the chandelier in the Canterbury room.
Spectacular Bid Feb 20th 2008 3:04PM
This home was in this quarter's Christie's Great Estates marketing book and caught my eye then too. Lovely architecture - as are so many in Indian Hill - that you can't duplicate today.
The furnishings (a moot point of course) seem a bit 'wimpy' in my view as its both thin and doesn't fully mix with the old French Normandy feel of the manor house from outside.
I had to laugh at the first poster who laughted out loud at the cinder blocks yet said "all that acreage" ... - eh, 9 acres isn't exactly baronial no matter how you slice it.
If I'm not mistaken this belongs to a former senior GE executive. Relatively expensive to be sure but in such a very wealthy enclave, high quality consturtcion, and with such visual beautiful it is far superior to most homes cited in this space as of late.
K Feb 25th 2008 2:55AM
Where I live, we suffer from "McMansions" or "country squires who want to live on city lots." Tiny lots, bit houses. Laugh at my choice of words, and I suppose I meant "all that open space" but in my area, 9 acres is a hell of lot, no matter how you slice it.
T. Leeflang Feb 22nd 2008 2:59AM
So much potential! Obviously in need of some serious updating, but with a little effort what a charming and unique home this could be.
Now, about that swimming hole....