ICE HOUSE HILL FARM. Richmond, MA There are properties with views in the Berkshires. Then there is Ice House Hill Farm 270 degrees of sweeping, layered vistas, and exceptional distant views - guaranteed forever by 130 acres of land that can never be developed. The facts: Exceptional building parcel on one of the Berkshires most beautiful roads, commanding staggering views. | 143 total acres. | 12.96 buildable acres + 130 acres permanently protected | Nearly 1 mile of frontage along East Road; 559' serves the buildable area | Historic farm complex: 1922 dairy barn and silo, etc. + 1890 farmhouse that needs renovation - this is primarily a land listing due to the quality of the build site. Open land at elevation with Wide & Distant views that will never change. A landmark farm ICE HOUSE HILL FARM 1130 East Road, Richmond, Massachusetts Stand at the crest of the hill, where the old ice house stands and you understand immediately: this is not a place someone designed. It is a place that has always been exactly this. Open fields rolling down to wooded folds, ridgelines lifting in waves to the west, the Taconics stacked blue in the distance. You are at 1, 350 feet, in the center of 143 acres, and there is nothing between you and the horizon but land that cannot be touched. That is the irreplaceable fact of Ice House Hill Farm. The 108 acres that create this view (the meadows in the foreground, the forests in the middle distance, the ridges that frame the sky) are held in permanent conservation by the Berkshire Natural Resources Council. They will never be subdivided. No one will ever build a house on them. The viewshed is as fixed as the geology. You are buying the view and the guarantee that it will never change. THE LAND( The farm unfolds across 143 acres in Richmond's East Road corridor, a designated Scenic Road since 1973 and one of the most intact agricultural landscapes left in Berkshire County. The property commands nearly a mile of frontage along East Road: 4, 890 feet of continuous presence on one of Richmond's most celebrated scenic corridors. Of that, 559 feet serves the 12.96-acre buildable parcel, providing direct access to both the farm complex and the hilltop site.( Fifty-two acres are classified as Prime Agricultural Soils, the rarest and most productive farmland designation in Massachusetts. Another eighteen acres are Soils of Statewide Importance. The rest is mixed hardwood forest, wetland edges, and the kind of open pasture that has been mowed and hayed for more than a century. The property is bordered to the north by the 163-acre Fairfield Brook Wildlife Management Area, owned and managed by the state. You are not just protected by your own conservation buffer. You are surrounded by permanence. THE 12.96 ACRE BUILDING ENVELOPE( The portion of the property not subject to the conservation restriction (12.96 acres) encompasses both the historic farm complex at the lower, western edge and the commanding hilltop site to the east. This is not a constraint. It is clarity. You have two building opportunities within a single, unified holding.( The farmhouse and barn complex sit along East Road at a comfortable elevation, sheltered by mature trees and accessible via the existing farm drive. The 1890 farmhouse is a classic New England center-chimney structure: 2, 108 square feet, four bedrooms, one and a half baths, good bones, and proportions that speak to care and longevity. It needs restoration. Someone with patience and taste will strip it back, modernize the systems, and bring it forward as a guest house, farm manager's residence, or family annex. The structure is sound. The character is intact.( The barn complex is substantial: a gambrel-roofed dairy barn built in 1922, a hay shed, a vintage silo, and a working garage. Assessed by the Town of Richmond at $232, 800, these buildings are functional and flexible. They can support agriculture, house a workshop or car collection, or simply stand as the photogenic anchors of
