THE TOWN

Incorporated in 1675, joining Rhode Island in 1747 to become its southeasternmost township, Little Compton is a New England paradise replete with all the characteristics of a Colonial settlement. Its picture-postcard Commons (the State's only town common) features a white, steepled church, a centuries-old graveyard, a central green, and an old-fashioned general store.  Its venerable Town Meeting keeps watch over Rhode Island's second-lowest property tax rate.  Town ordinances preserve its attractive rural character by forbidding condominiums and new lots less than two acres. Shingled 18th- and 19th-century homesteads stand at the end of winding tree-lined driveways, together with country lanes, hayfields, woods, orchards, sheep and cow pastures with three-story barns and silos, vineyards, specimen trees, protected open land, miles of stone walls, white- sand beaches, and a small harbor.

Seaconnet Point Farm:  Watch House colored blue; Carriage House colored red.

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THE PROPERTY

Seaconnet Point Farm occupies Little Compton's southwesternmost tip and summer quarters of the Seaconnet Indians, whose sachem was Queen Awashonks, cousin to King Philip. Of the Farm's 74.6 acres, 45.9 have been placed in permanent conservation easement. Its long gated entrance drive passes open meadows unmarred by utility poles. The Farm contains only six residences and one vacant buildable lot, called Watch House after the 42-room 1890s summer cottage that once occupied it. The cottage had a carriage house.

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Carriage House (Assessors' Plat 9, Lot 400-3A99), at 43 Washington Road, like Watch House has the right to draw water from an existing private-owned public water system. and to pass on foot across a meadow to a long white-sand beach and a private picnic rock owned and managed by The Nature Conservancy.  The beach and picnic rock enjoy panoramic views of Cuttyhunk, Gay Head, East Island, West Island, Sakonnet Lighthouse, Sakonnet Passage, Newport's Cliff Walk, St. George's Chapel in Middletown, and picturesque Sakonnet Harbor with its pleasure craft and commercial fishing fleet.  Carriage House's 2011 property tax was just $11,373.69.

In a class by itself, Seaconnet Point Farm West is proudly offered at $8,795,000.

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Watch House, adjacent to Carriage House, contains a wholly private white-sand beach.  They may be purchased separately or in a package.