WESTPORT — The Building Department has issued a permit to demolish the house at 1 Twin Oaks Lane.
The two-story Colonial was built in 1939. It has 2,400 square feet of living space, three bedrooms, three bathrooms, a basement, two stone patios, an open porch, a finished attic and an in-ground pool.
The property traded hands in April for $835,000. It had previously traded for $450,000 in March and for $630,000 in 2011. The property’s current assessment is $494,700.
Twin Oaks Lane is off Newtown Turnpike, south of the Merritt Parkway. Source: Town of Westport Assessor.
Hallelujah! I built a new home and lived across the street from this blighted property For 10 years. When we purchased our home, we assumed that Twin Falls was a knockdown or a fixer upper. No such luck. Despite my and my neighbors’ many complaints, we couldn’t move the needle in terms of getting this dilapidated eyesore of a junk house fixed up to a state that was acceptable by any normal standards. For 10 years, there were 30-foot trailers on the front lawn, no garage doors, a chain link fence surrounding a front lawn pool, rotted furniture and debris everywhere, and a dumpster always present — despite no construction taking place. There was a family of groundhogs living under the dumpster and rodents from the chicken house. Good times! All this lovely garbage and junkyard ephemera was in our sight lines every day, making it hard to have pride of place. Our neighbors took a bath on their home sale because no one wanted to live next to this blighted mess. We had countless meetings with the Blight Committee that ended with promises and frustrations. After living in Westport for 20+ years, I was glad to say buh-bye after this chapter. No one living and paying taxes in a town like Westport should have to live next to neighbors like this for a decade.