Chesterbrook Woods Neighborhood Guide

Chesterbrook Woods is the name most often confused with Chesterbrook Estates, which has its own guide, and part of the reason is that Chesterbrook Woods is itself a family of recorded plats rather than one. Fairfax County's subdivision records list Section 1 of Chesterbrook Woods recorded on February 28, 1941 (Deed Book 355, page 433) and Section 2 on March 15, 1948, followed by additions under the name: Simpson and Mays First Addition in 1946, Briggs and Hoopers Addition in 1956 with a second section in 1957, Smoots Addition in 1956, R. H. Stowes Addition and Windridge Addition in 1965, and Gentry's Addition in 1969, seventeen recorded plats in all, two of them listed in the county's records with the name misspelled.

What the county's records show

Fairfax County's real estate records list 362 parcels whose legal description names Chesterbrook Woods or one of its additions, some of them abbreviated to "Chesterbrook Wds". 343 of them are single-family houses, and all 362 are zoned R-2, which the county's records describe as residential at two dwelling units per acre. The median lot among the houses is about 18,000 square feet (17,852). The addition named in the legal description is the reliable label for a lot here; the neighborhood field on a listing is not.

When the houses were built

Of the 341 houses with a recorded year built, 200 date from the 1950s or 1960s and 91 from 2000 or later, so about one house in four has been built or rebuilt since 2000. That mix is why two houses on the same block can differ by half a century in construction, systems and size, and why a comparison here starts with the house's own record rather than the street.

The streets

The largest numbers of those houses are on Forest Lane, Chesterbrook Road, Laburnum Street, Oak Lane, Tompkins Drive, Woodley Road, Woodacre Drive and Oakdale Road. With roughly a dozen other Chesterbrook-prefixed plats in this part of McLean, the street and the plat name on the deed together settle which neighborhood a listing is in.

Fairfax County rules that apply, as of August 2026

A demolition permit and a new residential building permit both come from the county, and what can go back on a lot is governed by the R-2 district's setbacks, maximum height and lot coverage and by tree preservation requirements, not by the footprint of the house that came down. Where a lot reaches a mapped Resource Protection Area, the county's Chesapeake Bay Preservation Ordinance keeps a 100-foot buffer that is meant to stay undisturbed, so run the address through the county's Watersheds and Resource Protection Areas viewer before planning a pool or an addition. Fairfax County Public Schools assigns by address; verify any address with the FCPS boundary locator rather than the MLS field.

Chesterbrook Woods sits within McLean — that guide covers the zoning, permitting and site constraints that apply across the wider area. This page is a guide rather than a listings feed; to see what is actually on the market, search current McLean, VA listings.