Mark Pope buys home in exclusive Lexington countryside community

The Pope family has settled on a house in Lexington. Or, rather, an estate in a gated community just outside Lexington.

The Popes have purchased a home in The Grange Estates, a luxury gated neighborhood on Paris Pike next to the Lexington Country Club. According to the Fayette County Property Valuation Administrator (PVA) online database, the 10,492-square-foot residence was built in 2002 and has six bedrooms, six bathrooms, three half bathrooms, a pool, and a detached three-car garage. It sits on an 11.61-acre lot. Plenty of room for Pope, his wife Lee Anne, and their daughters Ella, Avery, Layla, and Shay.

The house was previously owned by Melanie Glasscock Simpson Conley, a former Lexington TV broadcast journalist and Miss Kentucky. It was assessed for $2.61 million earlier this year, and according to the Fayette County Clerk’s office, Pope purchased it for $4.75 million on July 3. Here’s the photo from the Fayette County PVA:

KSR’s real estate sources say the house wasn’t even on the market when the Popes expressed interest, therefore we don’t have an updated Zillow listing to pore over. We do have one on RedFin from when the house was sold in 2015, so click on over to get nosy.

The Grange Estates is definitely more bucolic than John Calipari’s house on Richmond Road, but it’s only a five-mile, 13-minute drive to Rupp Arena and a six-mile, 16-minute drive to the Joe Craft Center. The proximity to the Lexington Country Club is nice too should Pope decide to use the country club membership included in his Kentucky contract.

When’s the first pool party?