Southport, CT Homes for Sale
Southport is a village inside the town of Fairfield, not a town of its own — but it keeps its own postal address, its own railroad station and a historic district that covers most of the village. That combination is why people search for it by name, and why buying here is a different decision from buying elsewhere in Fairfield.
Available homes in Southport
These are active SmartMLS listings in the town of Fairfield with the 06890 postal code — Southport’s own ZIP. 06890 reaches a little north of the historic village to take in the Mill Hill area, so a few homes here sit just outside the village proper. Homes marketed as Southport but addressed to another ZIP will not appear.
$8,696,000
640 Hulls Farm, Fairfield, CT 06890
7 bd · 7 ba · 8,559 sq ft
Listed by Higgins Group Bedford Square — Jaclyn Picarillo
$5,995,000
98 Banks, Fairfield, CT 06890
4 bd · 5 ba · 5,699 sq ft
Listed by Compass Connecticut, LLC — Shoshana Snyder
$4,950,000
195 Old South, Fairfield, CT 06890
4 bd · 4 ba · 4,254 sq ft
Listed by Higgins Group Real Estate — Matt Lahey
$4,500,000
1061 Cedar, Fairfield, CT 06890
6 bd · 5.5 ba · 5,682 sq ft
Listed by William Raveis Real Estate — Libby Tritschler
$3,850,000
406 Harbor, Fairfield, CT 06890
5 bd · 4 ba · 3,921 sq ft
Listed by Brown Harris Stevens — Wendy Ryan
$2,695,000
204 Old Post #1, Fairfield, CT 06890
3 bd · 3.5 ba · 3,000 sq ft
Listed by BHHS Darien/New Canaan — Jennifer McDade
$2,695,000
400 Bronson, Fairfield, CT 06890
5 bd · 4.5 ba · 4,318 sq ft
Listed by William Raveis Real Estate — Susan Tortora
$2,349,000
245 Cedar, Fairfield, CT 06890
4 bd · 3.5 ba · 3,519 sq ft
Listed by Higgins Group Real Estate — Pat Prenderville
$2,199,000
245 Cedar, Fairfield, CT 06890
4 bd · 3 ba · 3,519 sq ft
Listed by RE/MAX Heritage — Michael Traum
$1,699,000
160 Cedar, Fairfield, CT 06890
2 bd · 1 ba · 2,131 sq ft
Listed by Higgins Group Bedford Square — Gabrielle Di Bianco
$1,550,000
110 Woodrow, Fairfield, CT 06890
0 bd · 0 ba
Listed by Keller Williams Realty — Michael Jabick
$1,497,000
71 Aberdeen #71, Fairfield, CT 06890
3 bd · 3 ba · 3,012 sq ft
Listed by Compass Connecticut, LLC — Michael Ferraro
A village with its own address
Southport is a census-designated place within the town of Fairfield, and it was a borough with its own local government until the middle of the nineteenth century. It still has the practical markers of a separate place: the 06890 ZIP code, a Metro-North station on the New Haven Line, and a volunteer fire service that has operated in the village since 1895.
For a buyer this matters in an ordinary way. A Southport address is a Fairfield address for tax and school purposes — the town of Fairfield governs it — but the postal address, the station you commute from and the historic-district rules that may apply to your house are all local to the village.
What the historic district means for a buyer
The Southport Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on 24 March 1971 (reference 71000898) and covers roughly 225 acres — a large share of the village. Its boundaries are the railroad to the north, the Mill River and Southport Harbor to the south, Old South Road to the west and Rose Hill Road to the east. The district contains more than 150 contributing buildings.
Fairfield also maintains Southport as a local historic district, and that is the designation with teeth: a local district commission reviews exterior changes visible from the street. If you are buying inside the district and expect to alter the outside of the house, confirm with the town what review applies to the specific address before you commit. This is the single most common surprise for buyers new to the village.
The housing stock
Most of the village was rebuilt after 1779, when British forces burned Fairfield. The Meeker House on Harbor Road predates 1766 and is the only structure known to have survived. What followed is the reason the district was listed: a dense run of Federal, Greek Revival, Italianate, Gothic Revival and Second Empire houses, most of them built between the 1790s and the 1890s.
Away from the historic streets the stock is more varied, and the Mill Hill side of the ZIP is largely later. If a period house is the point of moving here, the address matters more than the town line does.
Harbour, library and the rest of the village
Southport Harbor and the Mill River are the reason the village exists. Four shipyards once operated on the old Mill River, and between roughly 1840 and 1890 the harbour shipped the Southport Globe onion in quantity — the village was an agricultural export port before it was a commuter suburb.
The Pequot Library at 720 Pequot Avenue was founded in 1887 by Virginia Marquand Monroe and Elbert Monroe. It is an independently run special-collections library in a Richardsonian Romanesque building, and a contributing property to the historic district — not a branch of the town library system.
Sources
- Southport, Connecticut — Wikipedia
- Southport Historic District — Wikipedia
- Town of Fairfield — Southport station parking
Historic-district boundaries and review requirements change. Confirm what applies to a specific address with the Town of Fairfield before relying on anything here.
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