Quiogue Rental

Spacious Waterfront Property with Character, on Quantuck Bay, Quiogue

As the following photos show, our house needs work in terms of paint, installing wall lighting fixtures, and numerous repairs of that nature. But it is a large, airy house with "good bones." The front porch almost always catches bay breezes, even when it is sweltering further inland. For the price, we think this is a very good value for a vacation in the Hamptons.

The house, called Wyndwold, has been in our family since 1900. It has never been renovated and retains the original bathroom and kitchen fixtures. However, the old ice-box and coal-fired hot water heater are long gone (though they live in memory). Our gas stove and large refrigerator-freezer are only a few years old. The two bathrooms in the house are upstairs and retain the original claw-foot tubs. The only shower is in the small exterior building, which used to be the old laundry and still retains the original laundry tubs. The shower stall itself is primitive, but has a modern shower-head that can be handheld or fixed to the wall, good hot water and water pressure.

House from driveway - Laundry/shower building in on the right

The water, Quantuck Bay, is to the other side of the house, as this photo shows:

The small porch provides the entryway into the dining room. A renter who is a good sailor might, with permission, use this small sailboat. But any renter may use our two one-person ABS plastic kayaks and paddle to the nearby Quantuck Bay Estuary, which connects with the Quogue Wildlife Refuge. Kayaks shown below:

Continuing around the exterior of the house, you find the covered front porch that extends the entire width of the front of the house and wraps around half of the other side.

Two views of the front of the house--

The view across Quantuck Bay from the front door --

Dining room and living room :

You are now in the Living Room:

Going straight ahead, you will climb the front stairs (there is also a back stairs), with its small landing:

This view from the second floor hallway shows the entrances to 3 of the 5 bedrooms on the second floor.

The master bedroom has the best views of the Bay and best breezes. It has two twin beds.

Robin's bedroom, so named for our beloved aunt who uses it, has a single twin bed. The windows straight ahead open out to the trees that shade the house. The small windows on the left, as well as the window to the right of the bed, open out to the Bay with a view across our neighbor's lawn.

There is the "middle room" with a double bed and one window looking out to the Bay.

There is the "guest room" with two twin beds and facing toward the Bay on one corner and toward the driveway on the other side.

There is the "little room" with one twin bed and one small window opening toward the driveway. There is also a bedroom with a double bed on the ground floor right next to the living room. That bedroom has a toilet in the corner, put there when my grandfather became invalid.

There are two bathrooms on the second floor. The "little bathroom" has a small tub, beloved by children.

The sink of the "little bathroom." The house you see through the window is the neighbor's house on the other side of our driveway.

The other bathroom has a larger clawfoot tub and a similar sink and toilet.

Going downstairs again, you go back through the living room to the dining room. This is the view of the living room from the dining room.

The dining room. The wooden floors in the dining and living rooms are oak, installed after the 1938 Hurricane flooded the ground floor. In fact, there is still a noticeable line in the plaster on the living room wall, about 4 feet from the floor, where the floating furniture knocked against the plaster.

From the dining room, you go into the kitchen. In the days of cooks and maids, housebuilders did not pay much attention to kitchens. The kitchen has a small narrow stairway that leads up to the second floor and on to the attic, where the cook used to sleep. The attic is strictly off limits to rentors, as it is where we store our personal belongings.

Looking back to the dining room:

When you go through the door (usually kept open) next to the sink you go out to the laundry building, which contains the one shower in the house.

The laundry building itself. The door in the photo opens into the shower/toilet area.

Laundry before and after new roof, placed summer 2005