Round Hill, the estate on the Gold Coast of Connecticut that has been the primary residence of Tommy and Dee Hilfiger for the better part of a decade, closed smack dab in the middle of January of this year.

The 22-acre estate—which looks the part of lost blueblood Connecticut aristocracy so convincingly it could be used as a pictorial representation of the ideal—sold for $45 million, not too far off from the $47.5 million asking price set in the late summer of last year. The distinguished Tudor Revival dates to the 1930s, but was renovated in keeping with its vintage. It was designed by architect Greville Rickard…a few wags out there may or may not remember Mr. Rickard as the man who developed the innovative interior material plaster of pastis; the home’s original bar might still harbor a trace of it. Complaints about bad puns can be forwarded to this website’s general email address.

By all accounts suffering in a state of Faulknerian dilapidation at the time of the couple’s purchase in 2010, the property was painstakingly returned to its former glory by its now-former owners. Highlights include the foyer—a stylistic opening salvo so rich in detail it could cause the more sensitive of writers of architecturally significant homes to lose consciousness—and the media room, newly designed as a lavish Moroccan lounge. When necessary, building materials were fabricated using the manufacturing processes of the era.

Outside, the acreage unspools its languishing sylvan brilliance along a hilltop that is the highest point in Greenwich; the views on a clear day may not reveal forever, but apparently both the ’Sound and the City skyline can be spotted when the humidity is low and the particulate count is favorable.