Exclusive | This newly listed Bronx home is believed to be the oldest in the borough: It really tells the story of New York in 1 house

What’s old is new again — so much so that this home, rumored to be the oldest in The Bronx, is newly available for sale.Even if it isn’t, the Old Hadley Farm House — a five-bed, 2.5-bath residence located near Fieldston — is certainly one of the oldest surviving dwellings in the borough.It listed this week for $1.49 million, according to StreetEasy.“It really tells the story of New York in one house.

And it’s not like you drive along a tree-lined driveway to get there.It’s smack dab in the middle of your of a regular-looking Bronx Street,” Nick Dembowski, a historian at the nearby Van Cortlandt House Museum, told The Post.The landmarked residence spans 2,660 square feet and includes a sunroom, a detached two-car garage and a large yard on 0.34 acres.

A historic stone fireplace and 2-foot-thick-walls add to its extra-old world charm.No one has been able to date, with certainly, the home’s original stone structure.

Unconfirmed claims of the home’s existence in 1747 would predate even the Van Cortlandt Mansion, which holds the confirmed title of oldest residence in the borough. That year would even predate the United States.Not even Dembowski, who extensively profiled the property for the Kingsbridge Historical Society, can say far back the home goes.A tenant farmer named Isaac Green was the home’s first recorded occupant, in addition to five enslaved people.

There is little information on his residence before the American Revolution.William and Elizabeth Hadley purchased the home and its property in 1786. The Hadley Farm House saw its fair share of action during the war, when local skirmishes between rebels and British troops were commonplace.

The home served as a British outpost when, in 1778, an audacious French office led rebel troops on a night raid of the property.  Colonel Armand, according to records cited by Dembowski, snuck up on the troops in the dark — their lookout guy was apparently drunk — and “kind of slapped them ...