This Connecticut Home Comes With Its Very Own Lighthouse

A Connecticut shoreline estate is an attractive proposition all on its own, but this particular one has an accessory that sweetens the deal: a lighthouse originally built in 1886 that's listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Located in the Fenwick borough of Old Saybrook — where Katharine Hepburn lived — the 7,177-square-foot shingle-style main house was built in 2006 and includes five bedrooms and six bathrooms. A widow's walk on the roof offers 360-degree views of Long Island Sound, including the Saybrook Breakwater Lighthouse that's memorialized on Connecticut's "Preserve the Sound" license plates ($35 of every plate sold goes into the Long Island Sound Fund); a 50-percent stake in the lighthouse comes with this property.

Jane and Jennifer Associates at William Pitt Sotheby's International Realty have the listing, which is being offered for $8.9 million; a 2,634-square-foot guest house next door is also available for $3.9 million (but the big house has to sell first or the two have to sell together —for $12.8 million). Scroll down for a look around the property.

From: Town & Country