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New Construction Planned for Main Street, Fawn Lane and Carter Street

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The New Canaan Building Department last week issued a permit for new construction on Fawn Lane and saw a pair of applications come in for single-family homes planned for Main Street and Carter Street. A 2-story Colonial is planned for 415 Main St.—a .68-acre lot that now includes a 1957 Cape (with a ‘Demolition’ sign out front)—under an application filed Dec. 12. The new home is designed by Waterbury’s Merrell Architects and to be built by Watertown-based Eric Strachan—who also is listed as principal of the LLC that purchased the property in May 2012 for $780,000. According to the application, the new home will have 4,930 square feet and 11 rooms, including five bedrooms, four full bathrooms, two half-baths, unfinished attic and basement, two covered front porches and an attached 3-car garage.

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New Construction Planned for 1-Acre Property at Sleepy Hollow and Laurel Roads

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Town officials on Tuesday issued a permit to build a 6,300-square-foot home at the corner of Laurel and Sleepy Hollow Roads, two months after a single-story ranch less than half that size came down on the 2.06-acre property. The new home at 33 Sleepy Hollow Road—to be built for an estimated $950,000 by owner Barrington Homes 33 LLC of Westport—will include five bedrooms, six full bathrooms, two half-baths, three fireplaces, finished basement (playroom and exercise room), unfinished attic, three-bay garage and open and covered patios, the permit said. The property—owned by the same family since 1955, when it had been purchased for $29,500—sold in August for $910,000, according to an assessor’s field card. The architect for the new home is Weston-based j.a. jamieson architects. ***

The town building department on Thursday issued a demolition permit for 346 Smith Ridge Road, a 101-year-old Cape on 1.02 acres that sold two months ago for $825,000.

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Ca. 1850 Home on Richmond Hill Road Slated for Demolition

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A demolition sign has appeared on a Richmond Hill Road home that dates to 1850, according to its assessor’s card. The 2-bedroom Colonial at number 126 includes 1,440 square feet of living space split evenly between its two stories. It isn’t clear what’s planned for the .36-acre lot. No building permit application yet has been filed with the town. The property was purchased in October 2012 for $816,000, tax records show.

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High Praise for ‘Respectful’ Renovation and Expansion at Hoyt and Main

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A newly renovated house on a prominent Main Street corner is earning high praise for its preservation of the original 1903 structure that stands there and consideration for the neighborhood’s streetscape, as well as a respectful expansion that a series of prior owners had failed to execute, experts say. The recently completed alterations at 224 Main St. follow a stripping-off of additions and siding to get to an original “skeleton of the house” that was retained and then expanded on “in a way that looks as though they grew it over the past 100 years, like a natural progression of architecture, and that’s fantastic,” said New Canaan resident Martin Skrelunas, an architecture and landscape preservationist. “The parts that the developer tore off were themselves very insensitive, they had no relationship to the antique house or the neighborhood,” Skrelunas continued. “What I would say they’ve done—and I hate using these words because they’re not easy to translate—but they’re respecting the original building and ‘maintaining the hierarchy.’ So the antique portion of the house is the most important and largest in this case, and as each new function was designed and built, it recedes a little bit.

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New Construction Planned for Field Crest Road, Harrison Avenue

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A 1957 split-level at the back of Field Crest Road is slated for demolition and a new home that more than doubles its square footage will take its place. An application came in on Monday Nov. 24 to build a new home at 66 Field Crest Road, and a demolition sign now is bolted to the existing 1,974-square-foot structure. The new home will include five bedrooms, six full bathrooms, one half-bath, three masonry fireplaces, a 2-car attached garage, finished attic, partially finished basement and open blue stone patio in rear. To be built for $800,000 by DaCunha Builders LLC of Brookfield, it was designed by D. Peters Designs LLC of Wilton and includes 4,410 square feet of living space on the first and second floors, 1,000 in the basement and 1,050 in the attic.