The 1940s cottage at Ashridge Estate — a modest rural residence separate from the mansion and farmhouse, South Kortright, New York
Location · Modest rural home · Catskills, New York

The 1940s Dairy-Family Cottage

A modest, authentic rural home built for the family that ran the dairy — the everyday counterpoint to the grand mansion.

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Not every story needs a mansion

Built in the 1940s for the family that worked the Ashridge dairy, this is a real, unpretentious country house — modest rooms, honest scale, lived-in character. It's the kind of ordinary, authentic home that's genuinely hard to find and easy to shoot. When it's not on camera, it's comfortable cast or crew housing, fully separate from the mansion and farmhouse.

What it can play

An honest, everyday home.

  • Dairy-farm family home
  • Caretaker’s cottage
  • Tenant or estate-worker house
  • Postwar rural residence
  • Working-family home
  • Modest contemporary country home
Reference photography

Exterior as shot; interiors in preparation.

The 1940s cottage at Ashridge Estate — a modest rural residence separate from the mansion and farmhouse, South Kortright, New York
Photography forthcoming
Kitchen & living room
Photography forthcoming
Bedrooms
Photography forthcoming
Everyday rooms & details
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A real country house.

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