In June of last year, ex-NBC Evening News anchor Tom Brokaw listed his estate in bucolic Westchester County, New York, for $6.3 million. Not an unreasonable price, and one that did not betray an overly optimistic expectation for appreciation—Brokaw and his wife had owned the place since 1998, and they paid $4.25 million for it all those years ago.

Last month, the couple slashed the price, reducing the ask to their buy-in price of two decades previous: $4.25 million. That did the trick, and the news isn’t all bad. The sale price includes only 36 of the 57 acres Brokaw and his family enjoyed; the remaining parcels are apparently still under his ownership.

The retreat is marvelous for two reasons. One is the extent to which it pulls off that oft-attempted and oft-blundered feat of simultaneously suggesting unpretentious and luxurious; as a whole, the estate presents a ramshackle-rustic romanticism. The other is the greater setting: Pound Ridge, a perfect slice of scenic, easygoing green that just happens to be less than an hour away from Manhattan…without being Greenwich.

There are five bedrooms and 5.5 baths in the property’s 4,200 square feet of interior living space; another nice surprise. The setting here tells the tale, and most convincingly: rolling lawns, meadow, forest, and a lake begging to be relaxed beside in warm weather, and skated on in cold.