2156 AMESBURY Circle, Wellington, FL 33414

Show jumping Saturday. Polo Sunday. Your own pool in between. This Greenview Shores home sits in the middle of Wellington's winter season, minutes from Wellington International, home of the Winter Equestrian Festival, and the National Polo Center. The neighborhood park and playground are at the end of your cul-de-sac, Greenview Shores Park's courts

and track are down the road, and the home is zoned for New Horizons, Polo Park and Wellington High. The expensive work is done: tile roof about eight years old, impact windows, CBS construction, a fenced pool and a screened porch built for living outside.

Vaulted ceilings, fireplace, split plan, and a kitchen that opens straight to the pool. Kitchen and baths are original and spotless, so you choose the finishes. No HOA. ERE IS WHAT A WINTER WEEKEND LOOKS LIKE FROM THIS HOUSE Saturday you are in the stands at Wellington International watching the grand prix.

The Winter Equestrian Festival runs 13 weeks, January through March, and it is the largest and longest-running horse show in the world. Sunday you are at the National Polo Center, the former International Polo Club Palm Beach, now owned by the United States Polo Association, for brunch at the Pavilion and a match on Championship Field.

Its winter season runs 16 weeks. Both are within about two miles of Amesbury Circle as the crow flies, so you are home before the parking fields have emptied. THEN YOU COME HOME AND DO NOT LEAVE THE BACK OF THE HOUSE The screened porch runs the length of the back of the home, with ceiling fans, room for a dining table, a bar-height seating area and lounge chairs.

Brick pavers wrap the pool, the yard is fenced, and there is still grass left for a dog to run. From the kitchen island you can see all of it through the sliding glass doors. In July this is where dinner happens. WALKING THROUGH IT You come in through double entry doors under an arched transom window into a travertine-look tile foyer.

The formal living and dining rooms sit to one side under the vaulted ceiling. The family room carries the fireplace and flows into the kitchen, which has an island, a breakfast bar, stainless appliances and a window over the sink. The primary suite has its own side of the house, with sliders to the back, a long vanity with a makeup counter, a soaking tub and a separate shower.

The two secondary bedrooms share a full bath on the opposite side, and one is set up today as a home office with wood-look flooring and chair rail. Inside laundry, an attached two-car garage, approximately 2,135 square feet under air and 3,154 total. WHY THE ROOF AND WINDOWS MATTER MORE THAN THE COUNTERTOPS In Florida the roof and the openings drive the insurance quote, and they are the most expensive things to fix after you move in.

Those are handled here. Tile roof, impact windows and CBS construction are exactly what a wind mitigation inspection looks for, and they often qualify for premium credits. Ask your insurance agent to quote with a current wind mitigation report and a four-point inspection so you see the real number early, and verify the flood zone before closing.

Most resales in this neighborhood split two ways: fully renovated homes priced for someone else's finishes, or homes that still need work behind the walls. This one sits in between, which is exactly where you want to be if you plan to put your own kitchen in.

AMESBURY CIRCLE AND GREENVIEW SHORES Amesbury Circle is a small set of cul-de-sacs off Big Blue Trace between South Shore Boulevard and Wellington Trace. Low through-traffic, mature trees, and a neighborhood park at the end of the street with a playground, covered picnic pavilions and open grass, no busy road to cross.

Greenview Shores was built out in the mid-1980s and early 1990s, before Wellington incorporated as a village in 1995, which is why the streets are wide, the trees are big and the lots feel settled rather than squeezed. SCHOOL MORNINGS Wellington High School sits at 2101 Greenview Shores Boulevar