This $9.75M NYC penthouse comes with a delightful rooftop surprise

The penthouse unit at this six-story East Village address has hit the market, and the top-floor duplex comes with this cute, not to mention unusual, cedar-shake structure that has long commanded curious onlookers from its post on the building’s roof.

“Through a cast iron gate and behind a forest green door is an anomaly: the penthouse and cottage at 72 East 1st Street,” begins the listing for both offerings, which are being sold together for $9.75 million, but have entirely separate entrances.

The property snoops at Curbed first reported news of the listing.

Long a mystery, The Post revealed how the cottage came to be in 2017, when it hit the market for the first time, asking $3.5 million. The late sculptor Henry Merwin Shrady purchased the then-vacant and derelict property in 1980 and, in addition to renovating the structure, added the shingled rooftop dwelling, which has since become a local icon.

In addition to looking like it just blew in from coastal Massachusetts, the cottage — which also has a private landscaped terrace with an apple tree — offers 12-foot-high ceilings, exposures on three sides and bay windows. Listing images show it as a handsome bedroom space accented with a glass brick wall that lets in lots of natural light, and immediate views of the city skyline through other windows.

“As a standalone studio, it can function as a guest suite or a private home office,” suggests the listing.

Below it, the duplex also offers a rare aesthetic for New York City, namely that of an English country house.

The four-bedroom unit features a gas-burning limestone fireplace, an open kitchen and a living room with large parquet tiles salvaged from a London theater — all under double-height ceilings.

“One has the feeling of being transported away from its electric East Village location to an English country house or peaceful beach cottage,” Nick Gavin, who holds the listing with fellow Compass agent Allie Fraza, told The Post. “It’s a completely unique, completely special downtown retreat.”