Williamson County · Middle Tennessee
Living in Brentwood
Brentwood sits between Nashville and Franklin in northern Williamson County, and is defined by large lots, low-density zoning and a deliberate absence of dense commercial development inside its residential areas. It is the closest established large-lot suburb to downtown Nashville.
- County
- Williamson
- Distance to downtown Nashville
- ~10 miles
- Character
- Large lots, mature trees, low-density residential
What’s actually there
- Crockett Park and the Concord Road greenway system
- Radnor Lake State Natural Area on the northern edge. No boats, no bikes, walking only
- Maryland Farms, an office park that is one of the area’s larger employment centers
- Brentwood Library
- Retail concentrated at the edges rather than inside the neighborhoods
The housing stock
Predominantly detached homes on lots that are large by metro-Nashville standards, much of it built from the 1980s onward with newer estate construction layered in. Because the housing stock spans four decades, two homes at the same price can differ enormously in systems, roof age and layout. That gap is where the real negotiating happens.
Getting around
I-65 gives a short run into Nashville, often under 25 minutes off-peak. Maryland Farms means a meaningful number of residents have a commute measured in minutes.
Things to do in Brentwood
Places worth knowing before you decide whether you want to live here.
Crema Brentwood
Nashville coffee roaster’s Brentwood location.
Puffy Muffin
Bakery and restaurant at 229 Franklin Road, open for breakfast and lunch.
Crockett Park
The city’s largest park, with ball fields, trails and the Eddy Arnold Amphitheater.
Ravenswood Mansion
1825 house at Smith Park, used as a city event venue.
Radnor Lake State Natural Area
Walking-only preserve on the northern edge. No boats, no bikes.
Checked against each business as of August 14, 2026. Nashville loses restaurants faster than most cities, so if something here has closed since, tell me and I’ll get it corrected.
Subdivisions and named developments in Brentwood
Once you are actually looking, you stop searching by city and start searching by subdivision. These are the names that come up, and what is true about each one that will still be true in three years. No prices, no dues, no days on market, because those change and this page would go stale telling you about them.
Brentwood Country Club
The residential streets off Country Club Drive, which runs west from Franklin Road between the Concord Road and Old Hickory Boulevard interchanges. The club at the middle of it is built around Midway, an 1846 house that is still the clubhouse.
- Midway was built in 1846 by Lysander McGavock and named for sitting halfway between Nashville and Franklin. It served as a headquarters for generals on both sides during the Civil War.
- The golf course opened in 1987 and plays 6,482 yards to a par of 71 across a 215 acre club property.
- Private club with golf, tennis, pool, fitness and dining. Membership is a separate thing from owning a house on the street.
- Country Club Drive is a public city street. This is not a gated community.
- Home counts and build years for the surrounding streets are not published in any source I can verify, so ask me to pull the plat rather than trusting a number off a listing site.
Maryland Farms
Not a subdivision, and this is the most common mix-up in Brentwood. Maryland Farms is the office park along Maryland Way, running from Franklin Road west to Granny White Pike just south of Old Hickory Boulevard, and it is where City Hall sits.
- The land was Truman Ward’s Maryland Farms, an American Saddlebred breeding stable with its own track. The Brentwood Derby ran there into the mid 1970s.
- The office park deal was finalized in 1970, the year after Brentwood incorporated. The first building, 30,000 square feet of office space, opened in 1974.
- Brentwood City Hall is at 5211 Maryland Way, and the library and municipal center were built here in 1987.
- The street names still carry the horse farm: Thoroughbred Lane, Winners Circle, Ward Circle.
- Commercial zoning, public streets, no homeowners association. If you are searching this name looking for a house, what you want is the residential streets around it, not Maryland Way itself.
Governors Club
Brentwood’s first private gated community, in the far southeast of the city off Concord Road. Half the pages online place it in Franklin. It is in Brentwood, confirmed both by the city’s own limits and by the City Commission approving it in 1996.
- Approved by the Brentwood City Commission in 1996 and built from the late 1990s onward.
- Gated, with a 24 hour staffed entrance, governed by the Governors Club Property Owners Association.
- Roughly 425 homes. The Arnold Palmer signature course, laid out by Palmer with Ed Seay, runs 7,031 yards from the Palmer tees across about 200 acres.
- The clubhouse is Pleasant Hill, begun in 1855 by John M. Winstead Jr. and finished three years later. It is on the National Register, listed in 1988 as part of the John M. Winstead Houses, a 10.5 acre listing that also takes in a log house built around 1800.
- A street inside the community is named Colonel Winstead Drive, after the family that farmed roughly 450 acres here from 1799.
Annandale
Northeast Brentwood, with entrances on Cloverland Drive and Old Smyrna Road. Mostly Williamson County, with a small piece crossing into Davidson.
- 221 acres and 180 homes. Construction began in 2006 and the neighborhood was essentially finished by 2017.
- HOA, with a 14 acre park, two pools, a cabana, a play area, walking trails and ponds with fountains.
- Underground utilities, sidewalks, and a street plan built on roundabouts and cul de sacs rather than a grid.
- Builders included Carbine and Associates, Grove Park Construction, Ford Custom Classic Homes and Legend Homes.
Witherspoon
East Brentwood off Crockett Road near Wilson Pike, between Somerset and Raintree Forest. Sold out.
- About 263 acres and roughly 153 home sites, on lots running from half an acre to three acres.
- Lot sales began in the mid 2010s. Developed by Ford Custom Classic Homes with CPS Land.
- Clubhouse with a kitchen and conference space, adult and children’s pools, a pavilion, green space, and paved trails connecting to Crockett Park.
- The land was in the Holt family for more than two hundred years. The Thomas Holt House, also known as Holtland, is a Greek Revival house from about 1840 that was listed on the National Register in 1988.
- The plan kept the original house on its own parcel along with the family cemetery, a stone wall, a spring house and the ponds.
Inglehame Farms
East Brentwood off Wilson Pike at Split Log Road, with entrances on both roads.
- About 176 homes on roughly 200 acres, platted and built through the early to mid 2000s.
- HOA, with green space, a pool, a clubhouse, underground utilities, decorative street lamps and a cul de sac street pattern.
- Lots are described as about half an acre.
- Named for the brick historic house preserved at the top of the hill above the community. Drees Homes built the last new section, on Charity Drive.
Raintree Forest
East Brentwood, along Raintree Parkway between Wilson Pike and Crockett Road.
- 221 all brick homes across about 300 acres, most lots around half an acre, most built in the 1990s.
- Raintree Forest HOA, with the clubhouse at 1501 Raintree Parkway.
- Pool with a cabana, tennis courts, two playgrounds and walking trails connecting to Crockett Park.
- The Reserve at Raintree Forest is a later phase still being developed, so a Raintree address can mean a 1990s house or a brand new one. Confirm which section before you compare anything.
Taramore
Far south Brentwood off Split Log Road, built out from about 2010.
- 202 homes on roughly 300 acres, built by John Wieland Homes, a brand later absorbed into Pulte.
- Pool with lap lanes and a water slide, lighted tennis courts, a fitness center, a playground, and bike paths onto the Brentwood trail system.
- The clubhouse is the restored James Sayers House, built in 1845, inside the five acre Sayers Park.
- City records list Taramore among active subdivisions from 2012 through 2016, so build years vary by section.
Rosebrooke
Southeast Brentwood at Sunset Road and Split Log Road, and still building.
- 365 acres with about 248 home sites at completion. Lots run from roughly half an acre to three acres, most between a half and three quarters.
- The covenants set a minimum house size of 3,200 square feet, which is worth knowing before you plan anything.
- Not gated, per the developer. HOA, with a clubhouse, pools, pickleball and tennis, a playground, an event lawn and multi purpose trails.
- The land was Sunset Hill Farm, a horse farm that produced champion Arabian and Tennessee Walking horses. Co developed by Ford Communities and CPS Land with a guild of eight builders.
Primm Farm
A small, recent development at 8318 Moores Lane, carved out of about thirty acres that the Primm family held for generations. Twenty four lots on the western portion, with the historic house and barn on a separately purchased piece of the original tract. This is the one in Brentwood with a real preservation story attached to it.
- Twenty four residential lots on roughly thirty acres. Developer Jerrold Pedigo closed on it after more than seven years of negotiation with scattered Primm family descendants.
- A separate fifteen acres of the original tract was divided into five acre parcels and bought by Thomas Hopkins. The Owen-Primm House and the barn sit on that portion, not on the twenty four lots.
- Custom builders on the lots have included Arnold Homes, Artisan Custom Homes, Drees Homes, Landon Development Group, LTG Homes and WaterMark Homes, so the houses here are not one product repeated.
- Green space along Moores Lane with a 150 foot landscaped strip, and trail connections in the plan.
- The Owen-Primm House began as a log cabin built around 1806 by Dr. Jabez Owen on 44 acres, was expanded with wood framing around 1845 by Thomas Perkins Primm, and got further work around 1900. It was listed on the National Register in 1988.
- The National Register listing also covers a pair of log cabins from about 1845 that housed enslaved people, sharing a stone chimney and keeping their original vertical board doors, plus a stone springhouse and barn from about 1920 and a garage and shed from about 1930.
- Charlie Primm, a dairy farmer, was the last of the family to live here. He died in 2011 and the property sat empty afterward.
- A demolition permit was filed on the historic house December 14, 2020, with a 90 day waiting period, and Brentwood said publicly it could not stop it on private property. The house was not demolished. It was restored and was on the market as of May 2025.
Brenthaven
South central Brentwood around Brenthaven Drive, reached from Wikle Road. One of the older subdivisions in the city, and one of the hardest to find honest information about.
- Public city streets, no gate.
- Later sections carry their own names: Brenthaven East, Brenthaven Place and Parkside at Brenthaven, which the city recorded at 69 lots.
- Occupancy goes back to at least the late 1960s. Country Music Hall of Fame session pianist Hargus Pig Robbins lived here for 54 years.
- Build years, home count and HOA status are not published in any source I can verify. I would rather tell you that than repeat a number off a portal. Ask me and I will pull the plat.
Schools
Williamson County Schools
Look up an address with the district →
Brentwood addresses are served by Williamson County Schools. Zoning here is assigned street by street rather than by subdivision, and the district periodically redraws boundaries as new schools open, so confirm the zone for the specific address with the district rather than inferring it from the neighborhood name or from an old listing.
I publish district and school zoning as published fact and nothing more. No ratings, no rankings, no comparisons. School zones are set by the district, assigned by address rather than by subdivision or city name, and they change. Confirm any address with the district itself, and evaluate the schools yourself against what matters to your family.
Common questions
What makes Brentwood different from Franklin?
Proximity and density. Brentwood is closer to Nashville and zoned for larger lots with less commercial development inside residential areas. Franklin has a historic walkable center that Brentwood does not, and more new construction. They attract people for genuinely different reasons.
Is Brentwood only for luxury buyers?
No. The range is wider than its reputation suggests, particularly among the 1980s and 1990s housing stock. I work every price point and the search should start from what you want, not what you assume you can reach.
Which school district serves Brentwood?
Williamson County Schools. Unlike Franklin, there is no second district here, but zoning still runs street by street and the district redraws boundaries as new schools open, so check the specific address with WCS rather than trusting a listing.
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