Few properties manage to be both storybook and slightly surreal—but Seaton Place Farm, a 200-year-old estate in ’s Hunt Country, pulls it off. The 56-acre spread sits between the small villages of Upperville and Delaplane, on land once owned by Henry “Light Horse Harry” Lee III, a Revolutionary War cavalry hero and Virginia governor, and, yes, the father of Robert E. Lee.

The brick farmhouse dates to the 1840s, and from the outside, not much has changed. Think of a stately Colonial framed by old trees and rolling lawns, a long dirt driveway, and the kind of quiet that only a rural property can offer. Inside, the nearly 6,000-square-foot main house has been updated with a light touch. Antique floors, vintage mantels, and hand-blown windowpanes are all intact and balanced by marble baths, a

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