Boston-Area Estate With Stable,
Wine Cellar, Pool and Riverfront

What: Five-bedroom, eight-bathroom, 6,013-sq.-ft. main house on 9.65 acres

Where: Cohasset, Mass., about 20 miles southeast of Boston

Amenities: Two-horse stable, pool and spa with pool house, two-story carriage house with finished basement, temperature-controlled wine cellar with tasting room, four-car garage, tennis court, 135-yard golf hole, dock

Asking Price: $11.5 million

Opening Bid*: $10 million

Listing Agents: Donna Wood, Macdonald & Wood Real Estate Group, 781-934-2000 ext. 24

Due Diligence: Turn-of-the-20th-century industrialist Thomas Plant built this  mansion in 1904. Mr. Plant, who made his fortune as a shoe manufacturer, later built and moved to the "Castle in the Clouds," a mountaintop estate in Moultonborough, N.H., and left his Cohasset home to his first wife, Caroline. After Ms. Plant moved to Florida, the home fell into disrepair until its purchase for $725,000 by current owners Robert and Diane Johnston in 1987. The Johnsons restored the garden and added a pool house, carriage house and attached garage. The gated property also includes an approximately four-acre riverfront lot with the tennis court and a  one-acre lot with the carriage house. Each could be developed separately. The main house has a modern kitchen with attached family room, library and a game room above the garage. Mr. Johnston said they are downsizing to a smaller house now that their grown children have moved out.

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