Fieldwood Estates

Fieldwood Estates is the detached single-family side of an original planned development off Route 206 in northern Princeton, reached via Cherry Valley Road. Its houses sit along Van Marter Court, Meetinghouse Court, George Road, and the low-numbered end of Maidenhead Road, where the townhome phase of the same development, Fieldwood Manors, picks up the higher street numbers. Built around 2000 to 2001, the homes here are four-bedroom detached houses of roughly 2,574 to 3,742 square feet above grade, on larger lots than the attached homes next door. The closings from 2023 onward have run between roughly $1,325,000 and $1,710,000, including the two most recent, both in the second half of 2025, at $1,600,000 and $1,710,000.

The homes

Every recorded sale in Fieldwood Estates has been a detached house, and nearly all of them carry four bedrooms; the largest recorded home, 10 Meetinghouse Court, has five. Above-grade square footage runs from about 2,574 at 1 Van Marter Court to 3,742 at 2 Van Marter Court, and bath counts range from two full plus two half baths up to four full plus a half, so the spread inside a ten-house comp set is genuinely wide. Most of the community dates to 2000, with 10 Meetinghouse Court finished in 2001. One house stands apart: 4 George Road was built in 2014, fourteen years after its neighbors, and reads as a later infill rather than the community norm, which is worth remembering whenever it turns up as a comparable. Our data source does not publish an HOA figure for these homes, so any association fee is something to confirm in writing during due diligence rather than assume from the townhome phase next door.

The setting

The community sits in the northern part of Princeton, reached off Route 206 via Cherry Valley Road, on a compact group of courts and roads set back from the highway. Van Marter Court accounts for most of the recorded sales, with Meetinghouse Court, George Road, and the low-numbered Maidenhead Road addresses filling out the rest. Route 206 handles everyday errands and the drive north and south, while downtown Princeton and Princeton University are a short trip south for restaurants, shopping, and cultural venues. Because these are detached houses on their own lots, the trade here is private yard and full exterior responsibility, which is the opposite of what the adjoining townhome phase was designed to offer, and the reason the two sets of comps should never be mixed.

Schools

Every home in Fieldwood Estates is served by Princeton Public Schools, consistently one of the top-ranked public systems in New Jersey and the main reason buyers pay Princeton prices for this pocket north of town. Students continue on to Princeton Middle School and Princeton High School. Four-bedroom detached houses in the 2,600 to 3,700 square foot range are the format families buy for, and the fact that the district comes attached to a full lot rather than a shared wall is much of what separates demand here from the townhomes alongside it.

Market position

Recent closings set the level here: the three most recent sales, from 2023 through 2025, came in at $1,325,000, $1,600,000, and $1,710,000, which works out to roughly $457 to $516 per square foot. The median across all ten closings since 2019 sits near $1,205,000, a figure drawn from a small sample of houses that differ widely in size rather than a guide to what any one house is worth today. Size is the variable doing most of the work: a 2,574 square foot house and a 3,742 square foot house are both four-bedroom detached homes here, and they do not price alike. 4 George Road is the other wrinkle, built in 2014 rather than 2000, so it carries a different generation of finishes and systems and needs an adjustment whenever it turns up as a comparable. With only a handful of houses trading in any given year, the pricing work is comparing like with like: matching size, bath count, and build year before leaning on any neighborhood median. The tables further down this page show what is on the market now and what has closed most recently.