Home Buying

Luxury Listing: For $12 million, an exquisite Cape Cod estate

The 11,657 square-foot home has seven bedrooms, eight bathrooms, and two half bathrooms on just over 10 acres of woodlands. There’s also a one-bedroom, one bathroom guest house. Nauset Media

By Kelly Garrity -- Boston.com correspondent

December 22, 2021

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Wondering how to keep the kids entertained this winter break? At 87 Beach Road in Orleans, you can go bowling, get the movie theater experience, or host a mini volleyball, basketball, or tennis tournament — all without leaving the property.

“You’ve got absolute privacy, while being right over the hill from Nauset Beach,” said listing agent Brian Pothier of Gibson Sotheby’s International Realty. “You could tuck a whole family in there and never have to leave.”

The 11,657 square-foot home has seven bedrooms, eight bathrooms, and two half bathrooms on just over 10 acres of woodlands. There’s also a one-bedroom, one bathroom guest house.

Located at the end of a long, gated drive, the property has been on and off the market a number of times this year, and was first listed for $18,000,000 in April before being taken off in July. It was listed again in late August, for $14,899,000, but was delisted in November. It hit the market Dec. 6 for $12,000,000.

The foyer has wood floors and high ceilings. There's an L-shaped staircase to the left, and the living room is toward the back. — . – Nauset Media

The living room has high ceilings with wood beams. There are two sets of French doors to the left. Above them, large, grid windows let light into the room. there are two couches facing each other, and two chairs, all surrounding a coffee table. — . – Nauset Media

The home opens into a large foyer which blends seamlessly into the living room. Vaulted, wood-beamed ceilings and white columns add a hint of grandeur to the open space, which gets loads of natural light from sets of broad, colonial windows above two pairs of French doors. The living room features a wood-burning fireplace on one wall opposite a built-in, five-column bookshelf.

There’s also a wood-burning fireplace in the dining room, located to the right of the entrance. A doorway here leads through to a kitchenette, complete with a sink, dishwasher, wine refrigerator, and a cappuccino machine built into the wall.

The kitchenette has a sink, dishwasher, wine refrigerator, and a cappuccino machine built into the wall. — . – Nauset Media

The full kitchen adds even more amenities to the list, with two ovens (one in the island, the other stacked over the convection microwave), a six-burner stove and a separate wok stove built into the island, and beachy, blue-gray cabinetry from Pennsylvania’s Dutch Country. There’s also a breakfast nook in a quiet corner of the room, with white wainscoting under three walls of colonial windows.

In the foreground, a kitchen island has a built-in wok stove as well as a regular stove and a sink. In the back, light blue-gray cabinets line the wall from the to the ceiling, save for some counter space in the middle. — . – Nauset Media

A small table with two chairs is located in the middle of a bright room. The room has grid windows on three walls. — . – Nauset Media.

The kitchen opens into the family room, which has the same white wainscoting as the breakfast nook, as well as a wet bar and another wood-burning fireplace. The library, laundry home, half bath, and three of the bedrooms are all on the other side of this floor. The bathrooms each have closets and en-suite bathrooms. Two have combination shower/bathtubs, and the third has both a shower and a bathtub, as well as a sitting room. The library has a coffered ceiling and two sets of French doors, one that opens from the hallway into the room and another that lets out onto the grounds. The walls are mahogany, with built-in cabinets and bookshelves facing a wood-burning fireplace.

In the foreground, the back of chair facing a coffee table. A rocking chair and a couch are also set up around the table. In the background, the kitchen and the wet bar are visible. — . – Nauset Media

The library has a wall of bookshelves behind a dark brown couch. There are wood floors, and a small coffee table sits in the middle of the room. There are also french doors on the back wall. — . – Nauset Media

The L-shaped staircase leads upstairs to four more bedrooms including the owner bedroom, and an office. The owner bedroom has two sets of French doors on either side of the wood-burning fireplace, opening to a spacious balcony. It also features a walk-in closet and a luxurious en-suite bathroom with limestone floors, silestone counters, a jetted bathtub, a standalone shower, and two vanities each with a sink. The other bedrooms have a large closets and an en-suite bathroom with a shower/tub combo. Two of the rooms are connected through a balcony, and the third has its own balcony.

A large, four-post bed sits in the corner of a room with high, angled ceilings. There's a telescope set up by one of two sets of french doors, which are one each side of a fireplace. In the foreground, there's a sitting area with a couch and a white, circular table. — . – Nauset Media

A bathtub is located at the back of the room, under a set of windows. There are vanities each with a sink to the right and the left. — . – Nauset Media

Though it looks like one of the more modest rooms in the home, there’s more to the office than meets the eye. The bright room has a wood-burning fireplace and walls of wood cabinets, one of which moves to reveal a hidden opening to the hallway.

A desk sits in a room with light-colored wood floors and tall wood bookshelves with cabinets at the base. — . – Nauset Media

Another hidden door in a bookcase around the corner from the living room leads to the basement. The space features a home theater with a projector and several cushioned seats, a game room with a two-lane bowling alley, a billiard room, a gym and sauna, a wine cellar, and a kitchenette. The first and second levels both have wood floors throughout, while the floor on this level is made of a rubberized material, Pothier said.

Several black, cushioned seats face a screen. A project hangs from the ceiling to project movies onto the screen. — . – Nauset Media

The two-lane bowling alley in the basement of the home t 87 Beach Road in Orleans. — . – Nauset Media

An elliptical and a wrack of weights in the basement of the home at 87 Beach Road in Orleans. — . – Nauset Media

The wine cellar has wooden racks for wine on every wall, from the floor to the ceiling. — . – Nauset Media

The home’s unique features don’t end at the threshold, however. There’s also a four-stall horse barn, a greenhouse and garden, a full tennis court, volleyball and horseshoe pits, and a heated pool with a pool house. The pool house has a wet bar, fireplace, and a full bathroom with a shower. It’s counted as one of the nine bedrooms on the listing.