What we've learned about Hillsborough
There is no commercial zoning in this town: no grocery store, no gas station, nothing. What there is instead is roughly six square miles of large houses on wooded lots, reached by private drives off Parrott Drive and the roads winding up from the flat. Country Club Manor and the Ryan Tract sit flatter and more suburban. Carolands, Tobin Clark and Skyfarm run to genuine estates.
Cleaning a house at this size is a scheduling problem before it is anything else. Four to six thousand square feet across three levels, a main stair and a back stair, a butler pantry, and in some plans more bathrooms than bedrooms. We send larger teams instead of stretching one pair across a whole day, and we send the same people every time, because knowing which of the seven bathrooms actually gets used saves an hour.
What we walk into in Hillsborough
Lots start at half an acre and often reach an acre or more, and houses average about four thousand square feet with plenty above six. Expect two or three floors, a formal wing and a family wing, a rear service stair, staff or delivery entrances, wine storage, and hard flooring — marble, limestone, wide-plank oak — across most of the ground level. Bathroom counts of five to eight are normal. Gate codes and long private drives are standard, and no street has a sidewalk.