• The English-Tudor style home at 15 Tunxis Trail in Redding was custom built in 1983 by an Italian stone mason. The house includes a library loft accessed by a spiral staircase, vast gardens and a "pub" with a bar imported from England by one of the previous homeowners, a British rocker. Photo: Contributed Photo / Contributed / The News-Times Contributed
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The English-Tudor style home at 15 Tunxis Trail in Redding was custom built in 1983 by an Italian stone mason. The house includes a library loft accessed by a spiral staircase, vast gardens and a "pub" with a bar imported from England by one of the previous homeowners, a British rocker. less
The English-Tudor style home at 15 Tunxis Trail in Redding was custom built in 1983 by an Italian stone mason. The house includes a library loft accessed by a spiral staircase, vast gardens and a "pub" with a ... more
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The English-Tudor style home at 15 Tunxis Trail in Redding was custom built in 1983 by an Italian stone mason. The house includes a library loft accessed by a spiral staircase, vast gardens and a "pub" with a bar imported from England by one of the previous homeowners, a British rocker. less
The English-Tudor style home at 15 Tunxis Trail in Redding was custom built in 1983 by an Italian stone mason. The house includes a library loft accessed by a spiral staircase, vast gardens and a "pub" with a ... more
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The English-Tudor style home at 15 Tunxis Trail in Redding was custom built in 1983 by an Italian stone mason. The house includes a library loft accessed by a spiral staircase, vast gardens and a "pub" with a bar imported from England by one of the previous homeowners, a British rocker. less
The English-Tudor style home at 15 Tunxis Trail in Redding was custom built in 1983 by an Italian stone mason. The house includes a library loft accessed by a spiral staircase, vast gardens and a "pub" with a ... more
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The English-Tudor style home at 15 Tunxis Trail in Redding was custom built in 1983 by an Italian stone mason. The house includes a library loft accessed by a spiral staircase, vast gardens and a "pub" with a bar imported from England by one of the previous homeowners, a British rocker. less
The English-Tudor style home at 15 Tunxis Trail in Redding was custom built in 1983 by an Italian stone mason. The house includes a library loft accessed by a spiral staircase, vast gardens and a "pub" with a ... more
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The English-Tudor style home at 15 Tunxis Trail in Redding was custom built in 1983 by an Italian stone mason. The house includes a library loft accessed by a spiral staircase, vast gardens and a "pub" with a bar imported from England by one of the previous homeowners, a British rocker. less
The English-Tudor style home at 15 Tunxis Trail in Redding was custom built in 1983 by an Italian stone mason. The house includes a library loft accessed by a spiral staircase, vast gardens and a "pub" with a ... more
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The English-Tudor style home at 15 Tunxis Trail in Redding was custom built in 1983 by an Italian stone mason. The house includes a library loft accessed by a spiral staircase, vast gardens and a "pub" with a bar imported from England by one of the previous homeowners, a British rocker. less
The English-Tudor style home at 15 Tunxis Trail in Redding was custom built in 1983 by an Italian stone mason. The house includes a library loft accessed by a spiral staircase, vast gardens and a "pub" with a ... more
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The English-Tudor style home at 15 Tunxis Trail in Redding was custom built in 1983 by an Italian stone mason. The house includes a library loft accessed by a spiral staircase, vast gardens and a "pub" with a bar imported from England by one of the previous homeowners, a British rocker. less
The English-Tudor style home at 15 Tunxis Trail in Redding was custom built in 1983 by an Italian stone mason. The house includes a library loft accessed by a spiral staircase, vast gardens and a "pub" with a ... more
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The English-Tudor style home at 15 Tunxis Trail in Redding was custom built in 1983 by an Italian stone mason. The house includes a library loft accessed by a spiral staircase, vast gardens and a "pub" with a bar imported from England by one of the previous homeowners, a British rocker. less
The English-Tudor style home at 15 Tunxis Trail in Redding was custom built in 1983 by an Italian stone mason. The house includes a library loft accessed by a spiral staircase, vast gardens and a "pub" with a ... more
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The English-Tudor style home at 15 Tunxis Trail in Redding was custom built in 1983 by an Italian stone mason. The house includes a library loft accessed by a spiral staircase, vast gardens and a "pub" with a bar imported from England by one of the previous homeowners, a British rocker. less
The English-Tudor style home at 15 Tunxis Trail in Redding was custom built in 1983 by an Italian stone mason. The house includes a library loft accessed by a spiral staircase, vast gardens and a "pub" with a ... more
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The English-Tudor style home at 15 Tunxis Trail in Redding was custom built in 1983 by an Italian stone mason. The house includes a library loft accessed by a spiral staircase, vast gardens and a "pub" with a bar imported from England by one of the previous homeowners, a British rocker. less
The English-Tudor style home at 15 Tunxis Trail in Redding was custom built in 1983 by an Italian stone mason. The house includes a library loft accessed by a spiral staircase, vast gardens and a "pub" with a ... more
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The English-Tudor style home at 15 Tunxis Trail in Redding was custom built in 1983 by an Italian stone mason. The house includes a library loft accessed by a spiral staircase, vast gardens and a "pub" with a bar imported from England by one of the previous homeowners, a British rocker. less
The English-Tudor style home at 15 Tunxis Trail in Redding was custom built in 1983 by an Italian stone mason. The house includes a library loft accessed by a spiral staircase, vast gardens and a "pub" with a ... more
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The English-Tudor style home at 15 Tunxis Trail in Redding was custom built in 1983 by an Italian stone mason. The house includes a library loft accessed by a spiral staircase, vast gardens and a "pub" with a bar imported from England by one of the previous homeowners, a British rocker. less
The English-Tudor style home at 15 Tunxis Trail in Redding was custom built in 1983 by an Italian stone mason. The house includes a library loft accessed by a spiral staircase, vast gardens and a "pub" with a ... more
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The English-Tudor style home at 15 Tunxis Trail in Redding was custom built in 1983 by an Italian stone mason. The house includes a library loft accessed by a spiral staircase, vast gardens and a "pub" with a bar imported from England by one of the previous homeowners, a British rocker. less
The English-Tudor style home at 15 Tunxis Trail in Redding was custom built in 1983 by an Italian stone mason. The house includes a library loft accessed by a spiral staircase, vast gardens and a "pub" with a ... more
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The English-Tudor style home at 15 Tunxis Trail in Redding was custom built in 1983 by an Italian stone mason. The house includes a library loft accessed by a spiral staircase, vast gardens and a "pub" with a bar imported from England by one of the previous homeowners, a British rocker. less
The English-Tudor style home at 15 Tunxis Trail in Redding was custom built in 1983 by an Italian stone mason. The house includes a library loft accessed by a spiral staircase, vast gardens and a "pub" with a ... more
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The English-Tudor style home at 15 Tunxis Trail in Redding was custom built in 1983 by an Italian stone mason. The house includes a library loft accessed by a spiral staircase, vast gardens and a "pub" with a bar imported from England by one of the previous homeowners, a British rocker. less
The English-Tudor style home at 15 Tunxis Trail in Redding was custom built in 1983 by an Italian stone mason. The house includes a library loft accessed by a spiral staircase, vast gardens and a "pub" with a ... more
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The English-Tudor style home at 15 Tunxis Trail in Redding was custom built in 1983 by an Italian stone mason. The house includes a library loft accessed by a spiral staircase, vast gardens and a "pub" with a bar imported from England by one of the previous homeowners, a British rocker. less
The English-Tudor style home at 15 Tunxis Trail in Redding was custom built in 1983 by an Italian stone mason. The house includes a library loft accessed by a spiral staircase, vast gardens and a "pub" with a ... more
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The English-Tudor style home at 15 Tunxis Trail in Redding was custom built in 1983 by an Italian stone mason. The house includes a library loft accessed by a spiral staircase, vast gardens and a "pub" with a bar imported from England by one of the previous homeowners, a British rocker. less
The English-Tudor style home at 15 Tunxis Trail in Redding was custom built in 1983 by an Italian stone mason. The house includes a library loft accessed by a spiral staircase, vast gardens and a "pub" with a ... more
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The English-Tudor style home at 15 Tunxis Trail in Redding was custom built in 1983 by an Italian stone mason. The house includes a library loft accessed by a spiral staircase, vast gardens and a "pub" with a bar imported from England by one of the previous homeowners, a British rocker. less
The English-Tudor style home at 15 Tunxis Trail in Redding was custom built in 1983 by an Italian stone mason. The house includes a library loft accessed by a spiral staircase, vast gardens and a "pub" with a ... more
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The English-Tudor style home at 15 Tunxis Trail in Redding was custom built in 1983 by an Italian stone mason. The house includes a library loft accessed by a spiral staircase, vast gardens and a "pub" with a bar imported from England by one of the previous homeowners, a British rocker. less
The English-Tudor style home at 15 Tunxis Trail in Redding was custom built in 1983 by an Italian stone mason. The house includes a library loft accessed by a spiral staircase, vast gardens and a "pub" with a ... more
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REDDING — Most of the homes built in a small neighborhood off Newtown Turnpike were designed during a development boom in the 1980s to be angular, contemporary homes.

But the original owner of 15 Tunxis Trail, a Swedish businessman, had a different idea. The businessman and his wife, originally from Argentina, had always loved the Tudors and dreamed of living in a home reminiscent of the English royal family.

The couple commissioned Italian stone mason Gino Buzzeo, who lived in New Canaan, to build them an English stone Tudor home on the 2.65-acre property in 1983.

Three decades later, the English Tudor architectural features — an arched doorway with a keystone, exposed “half-timbered” beams on its exterior, diamond-patterned windows — still stand out.

“It really is a stunning, very unique property,” said Laura Freed Ancona, the listing agent for the house. “Not only the architecture, but the setting really sets the house apart.”

The home is set back by a long driveway on a cul-de-sac and neighbors’ 60 acres of protected open space. The original homeowners, and another couple who owned it since then, planted perennial gardens that bloom with more than 60 types of different plants throughout the seasons.

Inside, other features like a two-story, floor-to-ceiling fireplace, glass accents on the kitchen cabinets and diagonally-laid stone floors in the powder room continue the Tudor style.

But even though it does not feel like a “typical American house,” it still differs in some ways from the Tudor-style, too, Freed Ancona and the homeowners said.

”The home is surprising because it looks like a traditional Tudor, but inside it is very light and bright and almost has a modern feel," she said. “It’s very open and belies the more traditional Tudor exterior.”

One of the most interesting rooms can be found next to the home’s double-door entrance. Known as “the great room,” it features windows and a stone fireplace that both extend two stories toward the 35-foot vaulted ceiling.

On one side of the room, a “library loft” accessed by a spiral staircase overlooks the rest of the sitting area from a Juliet balcony.

”It is a very special feature," Freed Ancona said. “You won’t find that in most homes.”

Another library area can be found in the lower-level of the house, which also features an “English pub” with a bar imported from England by one of the previous homeowners, who was in a British rock band.

The home is on the market for $795,000.

aquinn@newstimes.com