Living in Buttonball

Buttonball took its shape in the decades after the Second World War, as Glastonbury grew from a farming town into one of the Hartford area’s most wanted suburbs. The assessor’s cards tell the story plainly: 88 homes from the 1950s, 220 from the 1960s, and 88 from the 1970s — with a scattering of much older houses that predate the neighborhood entirely, including one built in 1750, and a single modern colonial from 2016.

The result is a neighborhood with a settled feel that newer subdivisions can’t copy: mature trees, colonials and ranches on lots with a median around 0.6 acres, and homes that are held for a long time. In the last twelve months only sixteen of 444 homes changed hands.

Two landmarks anchor it. Buttonball Lane Elementary School stands at 376 Buttonball Lane, in the middle of the neighborhood it’s named for — the morning walk to school is a Buttonball ritual. And Glastonbury Community Church sits at 113 Stancliff Road. Glastonbury Center, with Hubbard Green, the public library and Main Street’s restaurants, is a short drive away.

Of the 444 homes on the town’s cards, 208 are colonials, 123 are ranches, and 55 are capes, with split levels (26), modern colonials (18) and raised ranches (8) making up most of the rest. Sizes run from under 1,000 square feet to just over 3,500, with a median of 2,013 square feet — and most homes have three or four bedrooms (192 and 215 of them, respectively).

That consistency is what makes the neighborhood’s market readable: when a renovated colonial sells on Founders Road, every colonial owner on Carriage Drive has a real comparable. It’s also why condition drives price here — the year’s sales ran from $475,000 for an original-era cape to $975,000 for the 2016 build. See the full year of sales.

Buttonball Lane is the spine — 74 parcels including the elementary school — and Olde Stage Road is the longest street at 79 parcels. The smaller lanes (Wagon Road has just seven homes) are the quietest corners of the neighborhood. Parcel counts are from the Town of Glastonbury assessor database, November 2026.

Thinking about a particular street? The recently sold table filters by street, and Adam can tell you what’s likely to list next on any of them — call (860) 773-4412.