Picturesque seaside windmill house hits the market

This unusual Rhode Island home is on the market for the first time

581 West Main Road
581 West Main Road

It finally feels like fall, so obviously you should be enjoying the leaves and sea air in a former windmill. All you’ll need is $2.4 million.

It looks more like a movie set than a real home, but there it is: a shingled home that once functioned as a windmill dating back to 1886. Located in Little Compton, Rhode Island, the state’s southern tip, the home was designed by Providence architects, Stone, Carpenter and Wilson.

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The five-bedroom main house is on the market for the first time since it was built, according to Curbed. It features 180-degree vistas out to the Atlantic Ocean, Bas-relief sculptures and inscriptions by Rhode Island-born artist Sydney Burleigh. There is also a second house on the property, built in 1933.

Mott and Chace of Sotheby’s have the listing. [Curbed]Christopher Cameron