This Greenwich Estate Has a Roller Hockey Rink in the Basement
Somewhere along the way, the luxury amenity race stopped being about wine cellars and heated floors. At 23 Bedford Road in Greenwich, it has escalated to the point where the basement contains a roller hockey rink. Not a room where one could hypothetically play roller hockey. A rink, built on purpose, in an approximately 11,000-square-foot stone-and-shingle house that has clearly decided staying home should beat going anywhere.
Photo: Daniel Milstein
Listed by Megan Sullivan of Douglas Elliman for $6,950,000, the house sits on roughly two acres of landscaped grounds and pairs a classic Hamptons-inspired look with a lower level that reads like a very upscale recreation center. Alongside the rink there is a golf simulator, expansive fitness and recreation space, and a woodworking studio, in case the evening calls for building a bookshelf instead of slap shots. Then there is the theater: roughly 800 square feet, two tiers, 16 speakers, and eight reclining chairs, which is less a media room and more a small cinema that happens to be downstairs.
Outside, the program continues with a heated saltwater pool, a full outdoor kitchen, a substantial entertaining bar, and a dedicated basketball area, covering the summer season as thoroughly as the rink covers winter. The entertaining streak runs through the main floor too, where the chef's kitchen has two oversized islands, three sinks, and three dishwashers, a spec that quietly admits how many people this house expects to feed. Upstairs, the primary suite gets its own balcony and fireplace, joined by four additional en suite bedrooms and a heated four-car garage out back.
The pitch here is not subtle, and that is the charm of it. Greenwich has no shortage of beautiful, tasteful, quietly expensive houses. This one would rather be fun, and at just under $7 million, with Manhattan still an easy trip away, it makes a genuinely persuasive case that the best resort in the tristate area might be somebody's basement.
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At 23 Bedford Road, nearly 11,000 square feet of living space comes with a basement roller hockey rink, golf simulator, 800-square-foot theater and enough amenities to make leaving home optional.