An eco-friendly, efficient home with a surprise inside.
The nuts and bolts
4 bedrooms
3.5 bathrooms
1,500 square feet
.14 acres
House proud
This home in Noyack’s Pine Neck beach community stands out from its neighbors for its low-intervention, high eco-friendly design. Built in 2019 with efficient SIP 8-inch wide modular panels and other energy efficient materials, Rachel Rushforth-Worrell, the Brown Harris Stevens agent representing the property, says the home was constructed on site, on a formerly empty lot. “It’s a very unique build for Pine Neck — the first of its type in the neighborhood.”
What’s the plan?
The house is built on two levels, offering space for sleeping and entertaining. On the main floor, the kitchen, dining and living rooms (combined, about 458 square feet) form a wing around an interior courtyard — hidden from public view — with the 170-square-foot primary bedroom composing most of the opposite wing. In between and along a long hallway connecting the wings, are two bedrooms of near equal size (about 135 square feet) and a shared bathroom with a skylight and another accessed in the hallway. The lower level offers a 546-square-foot recreation room with a fully equipped wet bar, a bedroom and full bathroom, home office and laundry facilities.
What’s cooking?
The kitchen features a Thermador stove and Caesarstone counters on top of sleek white cabinetry.
What else?
Eco-friendly bamboo flooring with a special finish and pickled ceiling wood finishes provide texture throughout. The windows are designed high, which affords extra privacy.
Amenities and more
- Private interior courtyard
- Plunge pool and outdoor shower
- Gas firepit
- Gas-fueled fireplace
- Wet bar
One cool thing (or two)
Suspended from the roof line are two water chains that lead to dry wells. Rushforth-Worrell explains that rainwater travels down the chains from the roof and into a clay cylinder partially dug into the ground, so the water can stream directly into the earth. “They are very eco and so beautiful when it rains,” she says.
Agent’s callout
“It’s a very unique modern eco courtyard house that presents a very efficient way of living. For a smaller house, it’s amazing how it uses the space. Everything is super-efficient and tight and yet, you have this very Hamptons beachy feeling … it’s full-on Hamptons.”
Location, location, location
Noyack is a hamlet to the west of Sag Harbor Village, and Pine Neck, a historic beach-cottage community on a hook-shaped peninsula, “is an area that’s trending in terms of real estate in Sag Harbor,” says Rushforth-Worrell. “It’s prime real estate and you’re right near a sandy beach and the Circle Beach lagoon for paddleboarding.” Also nearby are Trout Pond Park, Noyac Hills County Park, the former site of Bridgehampton Race Circuit, now a historic landmark; numerous gold, country and yacht clubs. The village of Sag Harbor is four miles to the east.
Details
The eco-efficient home at 30 Birch St. lists for $2,250,000 and the details can be seen here.
