Price Reduced 7.81%
Listing courtesy of Jason Hackler, Duston Leddy Real Estate Cell: 603-321-0777
Price History
$1,280,000
4/20/2026
$1,180,000
5/11/2026
4 Elm Hill Road, Peterborough, NH, 03458
14 rooms
5 beds
2 Full / 2 three-quarter / 1 Half baths
1920
Antique
4,180 sqft
Named Highwood when built by the Van Rensselaer family in the 1920s, this remarkable home features a great room recreated from an 18th-century church. With vaulted ceilings, carved paneling, custom plaster walls, a choir loft, Gothic windows, and a Dutch door opening to a three-season porch, the space feels like a theater transporting you to another era. Italian sconces, 18th-century paintings inset into the paneling, soaring ceilings, and a wood-burning fireplace enhance its grandeur. Between 2016 and 2018, the home was thoughtfully expanded and renovated, blending historic character with modern comfort. Highwood now offers an open-concept kitchen flowing to dining and family rooms, French doors to an office, and a first-floor primary suite with cathedral ceilings, shower, and claw-foot tub. The kitchen connects to a hallway leading to garages, a yoga studio/playroom, and a deck and patio. A garage lift/elevator provides easy access for groceries or a wheelchair. Upstairs are four additional bedrooms and two full baths. Set on over three acres bordering conservation land, the property includes low-maintenance gardens, stone walls, a fenced street side for privacy, and a hand-wrought cast-iron gate—an original housewarming gift from Lady Astor to Mrs. Van Rensselaer. Please see virtual tour. Listing agent related to seller.
Status:
Active
Type:
Single-family residential
Zoning:
residential
Frontage:
512
Garage:
4-car Garage
Heating:
Propane, Oil
Cooling:
Central AC, None
Basement:
Bulkhead, Concrete Floor, Dirt Floor, Insulated, Interior Stairs, Interior Access
Acreage:
3.55
Est. Taxes:
$19,782
Lot Description:
Landscaped
MLS #:
5084371