This 1894 built homestead on just under 10 Acres offers a slice of Barossa Valley history. This lifestyle property showcases luxurious modern updates and quality finishing's throughout. This home was originally owned by head Horticulturalist at the Collingrove Estate. The significant piece of Mount Mckenzie's history has been utilised as a dairy farm, Angas beef cattle farm, and temporary housing for the Mount Mckenzie school for a short time. In addition, the homestead was also utilised as the post office for some time and the barn on the property often hosted extravagant parties and dances for the surrounding districts until 1924 when the Village hall across the road was built.
The magnificently well presented main home boasts of three sizeable bedrooms, light and airy sunrooms, and two well appointed bathrooms. The northern sunroom is currently being utilised as a study, however offers direct access to the front verandah overlooking the well-established and maintained gardens.
The formal entry hallway with original lead light windows welcomes you with crisp colouring's and timber hybrid floors, also conveniently servicing bedrooms two and three which have built in robes. The 2.7m high ceilings with decorative cornices and ceiling roses add to the heritage beauty of this home. Bedroom one offering ample cupboards for storage, a spacious dressing room and a private ensuite bathroom.
The updated kitchen gives a Hamptons chic feel with deep natural Granite benchtops and a pressed tin backsplash. The smallest details add style to this kitchen with the leadlight windows, black appliances including 1100mm 4 door deluxe dual fuel range cooker, integrated dishwasher, free standing island bench and the spacious walk in pantry. There is plenty of cupboard space and the open plan living area offers the perfect place to supervise the kids or entertain your guests. Conveniently located main bathroom a short step off the main living room. Featuring modern finishes and a full size bath tub perfect for soaking in the suds after a hard day working in the garden or tending to the animals.
The main living area, being the heart of the home services the formal dining room that is currently being utilized as a reading room. With built in shelving and beautiful natural lighting this is certainly a multi-purpose space. There are a number of decorative fireplaces throughout the home, and you can appreciate the detail that has been emphasised on each of them.
The back sunroom services a storage area and small veranda overlooking the fully fenced back yard. This sunroom could easily be utilised as a mud room making the perfect space for the family to store all their shoes, coats and school bags. You will be blown away with the features this property has to offer with combustion heating, reverse cycle split systems, sky lights adding natural light, and the panoramic views from every window.
Outside you can see the style continue with manicured gardens, green fields and the historic barn ripe with the potential to be converted into a contained studio, potential BnB, or even just a recreational space to entertain the family. There is ample space in the sizeable workshop and of course additional storage is a massive plus.
Infrastructure includes horse shelters and day yards, additional shedding, 7 separately fenced paddocks, massive amounts of rainwater storage with pumps, bore water, stone garden shed, chicken yard and coop with 8 breeding compartments and secure equimesh fencing around the house. You can even own your own irrigated Truffiere; the oldest in the Barossa, hosting 100 Black Perigord Truffle inoculated English Oak Trees lining a back paddock; ripe to produce Truffles within the next 12 months.
This super scenic part of the Barossa Valley is a short drive to local schools, sporting clubs and shops. Mount McKenzie is situated less than 8 minutes from Angaston and less than 20 minutes' drive to Tanunda.
Things we love:
- 3.84 hectare (approx.) lifestyle property
- Original 1894 restored and renovated home
- Three spacious bedrooms with built in robes
- Main bedroom with storage, dressing room and ensuite bathroom
- Open plan living kitchen and dining
- Updated Hamptons chic kitchen
- Granite bench tops and pressed tin backsplash
- Black appliances 4 door deluxe dual fuel range cooker
- Integrated dishwasher and walk in pantry
- Main living at the heart of the home
- Formal dining or reading room
- Spacious main bathroom with full size bathtub
- Decorative fireplaces
- Luxurious updates throughout
- New Combustion heating & reverse cycle split systems
- Well established & maintained gardens
- Over 390,000L of rainwater storage
- Fitted bore & well with 500 parts per million quality
- New evacuated tube Solar Hot Water System
- New pumps installed across property
- 2.5kW Solar on historic tariff
