Investor and brand development guru Chris Burch purchased this unusual property in the Hamptons this month. The Burch Creative Capital founder ventured $28 million to acquire the estate, which is something of an urbane country home oasis in the midst of an agrarian landscape. It features a 12,000 sq. ft. shingle-sided farmhouse and attached guest house surrounded by 6.9 acres of grounds. It has been titled Listowel.

According to listing information, the heirloom farmland that surrounds the property has been owned and worked by the same families for hundreds of years. Inside the property boundaries, the grounds include a series of hedge-bordered planters, as well as a pool, which is also hedge-bordered, and situated inside a grassy area that is enhanced by rows of mature trees.

The house itself is remarkable. Its exterior features towering stone chimney stacks, an eccentric gabled roofline, shake siding, and a dark, earth-toned color scheme. Inside the home, the living style is expressed as a kind of contemporary Gothic: dark wood and paint for floors, walls and ceilings, with a surprising angularity or abrupt break in ceiling design here and there; the effect is most pronounced in the vaulted master bedroom.

The blue ribbon goes to the two-story library, but the brightest rooms are the dining room — panoramic chinois wall covering and a fireplace — and the kitchen. The latter is a clinical-commercial job, stainless a-plenty and subway tile. All in all, an unusually affecting version of stark is at work in the house, which looks out over Mecox Bay the 360 feet of water frontage deeded with the property.