Property Details
Basic Information
- Title of Property: The Margaret Cummings Estate
- Property Name: The Margaret Cummings Estate
- TreeHouse: 73527545
- Address: 82 River Road
- Property Type: Residential
- Status: ACT
- Neighborhood: Topsfield
- Mls Status: Active
- Acreage: 12.53
- Latitude: 42.632554
- Longitude: -70.959812
Building
- Property Style: Tudor
- Square Feet: 5,280
- Year Built: 1909
- Rooms: 12
- Garage Spaces: 2
Location
- Neighborhood: Topsfield
- Town: Topsfield
- County: Essex
- State: MA
- Zip: 01983
Interior Features
Bedrooms
- Bedrooms: 7
Bathrooms
- Bathrooms: 4
- Full Baths: 3
- Half Baths: 1
Basement
- Basement: Yes
Other
- Fireplace: Yes
Exterior Features
FEATURES
- Exterior Features:
Property Overview
- 12.532± acres of land
- 4.377± acres outside of the Conservation Restriction, referred to as the “building envelope”
- c. 1909 Main House, detached Garage/Carriage House, and Pump House, all designed by Charles Kimball Cummings
- Garden Pavillion with hipped roof, Tuscan columns with lattice screen between, and a brick floor
- Formal perennial garden designed by Arthur Shurcliff with brick walkway and walls
- Walled brick terrace on the rear of the house
- Rural pastoral setting with mature trees, stone walls, and surrounding meadows
- Informally terraced hill sloping toward the pump house, planted fields, Lake Cemetery, and Ipswich River with slab stone steps set into the slope of the hill
- Agricultural landscape of pastureland and orchards
- Conservation Restriction held by Essex County Greenbelt
- The property is within the Topsfield Historic District; River Road-Cross Street Historic District
Utilities and Appliances
Utilities and Appliances
- Utilities:
List of Improvements
- 2026: Sealed and painted basement walls
- 2025: New Roof: CertainTeed Asphalt in Fieldstone Color - House
- 2025: New propane generator
- 2023-2024 Windows Restored, Window Woman
- 2019: Rubber Roof on roof deck striped and replaced
- 2015: Rebuilt chimney, replaced flashing and crown
- 2015: Lined chimney with a stainless-steel liner and install cap
Utilities
- Town Water
- Septic System: 7-bedroom system. Title V complete.
- Bioclere/Annual maintenance required
- Oil Heat: Forced air – 1 zone, Forced hot water baseboard – 2 zones
- Tankless hot water heater
- 50 Gallon water heater
- Electric – 200 amps
- Whole House Generator – propane fired (2025)
- CertainTeed Asphalt Roof (2025)
- Restored windows (2023-2024)
Community
Amenities
- Activities: Bird Watching, Hiking, Gardening



