By Chava Gourarie
Publication Date: 2026-03-04 22:12:00
Cisco Systems co-founder Sandy Lerner has sold his Virginia manor for $19.8 million, closing the deal in late February.
Called Ayrshire Farm, the 571-acre estate in Upperville in Virginia’s Piedmont region, features a 17,000-square-foot fieldstone manor house completed in 1912 for a brigadier general named James A. Buchanan.
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When Lerner bought the property in 1996 for $7 million, the home had been vacant for about a decade and it required a multi-year restoration, according to The Wall Street Journal. Over the course of the project, she restored much of the masonry of the original structure—which had been constructed with 4-foot thick walls using stones quarried on site—and modernized the energy and security systems.
Additionally, the seller added an English conservatory to the manor and restored its original cypress windows, crown moldings and other period details.
