Kenjockety, Estate of the Day

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed)
Dec 5th 2009 at 1:01PM

Today's home is another look at a home we've been talking about since 2005 when it was listed at $16.25 million. Kenockety in Lloyd Harbor, New York was once owned by Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees. The Tudor home was built in 1926 and sits on 6.7 acres of land. It has seven bedrooms, a library, conservatory, a gym and a master suite that includes several marble fireplaces. The property includes a gunite pool, brick cottages, greenhouse and 500 feet of water frontage with deeded docking rights. It is now listed at $9.9 million which is, as Newsday's Real LI points out, a nearly 40 percent reduction off the original price.

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V Kessel Dec 6th 2009 1:58AM

Wow, this is an exquisite property. While almost all east coast houses from the 1920s are well built, the mansions and estates from the 1920s are exceptionally graceful, well sited, and well landscaped. Good high-profile comparisons -- in the looks, vintage and class department, although I don't know about the $ department -- are probably Mel Gibson's Tudor estate for sale in Greenwich CT, and Nicholas Cage's house for sale in Rhode Island.

I'll bet Kenjockety's local taxes are pretty punishing, though!

Spectacular Bid Dec 6th 2009 3:45PM

The property as it was "back in the day": (mid 1920's)

http://www.lloydharbor.org/village/AlbumHistoric7.htm

Regarding the taxes, per Daniel Gale Sotheby's: Annual Taxes: $59,104.00 plus additional Village Taxes: $7,555.95 ... which is actually "cheap" compared to some of the peer properties