A warm and generously-sized family home with period charm, on one of West Footscray’s best streets.
Why you’ll love it
• Warm timber tones in a light-filled and spacious living/dining/kitchen area with eye-catching stained glass windows.
• Three bedrooms, two bathrooms, powder room, multiple living areas and zones, mezzanine/fourth bedroom, green outdoor areas for entertaining and relaxing, heating/cooling and parking for two.
• Location, location, location. Unparalleled walkability to transport, shops, services, amenity and schools. Plus a very short drive or cycle to key villages and business areas, including Footscray, Yarraville and Highpoint.
Warleigh Road is one of West Footscray’s most coveted streets. This is the only street in the suburb lined with decades-old ash trees that brings an old-world charm, complementing the weatherboard homes that fill the street.
Inside the house, practical interiors mean that you will be comfortable from the outset and offers a flexible canvas for you to personalise over the coming years. Three large bedrooms, a sizeable dining room and central bathroom all feature in a quiet, original front section. This leads into a rear extension that is soaked with sun and primed for entertaining.
This extension features warm tones of solid timber span walls, exposed beams and a raked feature ceiling that rises all the way up to the apex of the roof. You’ll be able to make use of the statement mezzanine level in a variety of ways: great as an office, creative studio, teenager’s retreat or even a fourth bedroom. Living and dining zones adjoin an oversized kitchen, featuring extensive bench and cabinet space. Just ouside the sliding glass doors is a backyard where sun and palm trees make entertaining a joy.
Other highlights include a balcony off the mezzanine, a second bathroom with bathtub, a separate powder room, laundry, heating/cooling, ceiling fans throughout and driveway parking for two.
Why you’ll love the location
Enjoy one of the most well-positioned homes in West Footscray (and the inner west), featuring incredible walkability to transport, shops, schools and services. This includes:
• 5 minute walk to West Footscray station, now with train services every 3–5 minutes at peak hour and 10 minutes at all other times of the day through the Metro Tunnel. This station will also eventually link to the Melbourne Airport rail.
• 2 minute walk to the 220 bus, with 10–15 minute frequencies taking you into Footscray and Melbourne CBD.
• 2 minute walk to the popular Footscray IGA (or Sim’s as the locals call it) and an Australia Post office.
• 5 minute walk to the lively Barkly Street Village, with cafés, grocers, bookstore, restaurants, bakery, doctor, pharmacy, osteopath, yoga studio, barber, op shop, art studio, bike shop and public library.
• 5 minute walk to the redeveloped RecWest Footscray recreation centre and Shorten Reserve sports precinct, scheduled to open in late-2027.
• 10 minute walk to the Martin Reserve dog park, a very popular fenced, off-leash park for dog parents.
You’ll also be in the coveted West Footscray Primary School zone, only 10 minutes walk away. There is also the option to enroll at St John’s Catholic School which is also a 10 minute walk away. For parents with younger kids, there are three childcare centres within a 5-10 minute walk.
Jump on your bike or in your car and you will be no more than 15 minutes from Highpoint, the Maribyrnong Aquatic Centre, Central West Shopping Centre, Footscray Market and CBD, Seddon Village, Yarraville Village and the Sunshine CBD. You will truly be at the centre of the inner west.
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