This sustainable home or ideal weekender is set with complete privacy on over half an acre of beautifully mature cold climate gardens. The renovated 1950's weatherboard home has been complimented with the additional of a high standard passive solar living/dining room extension in 2012. This beautiful room, with polished concrete floor and slow combustion fire over a sparrow-picked concrete plinth, is bathed in northern sunshine through full height double glazing and wide opening doors leading to a large entertaining deck and BBQ area. The room is open to, but nicely separated from, a new all white eat-in kitchen with limed cork floors and an open fireplace.
The bedroom wing consists of two double bedrooms with built-in robes and two single bedrooms, fully renovated bathroom and large office/study with fast ADSL connection and doors to a private courtyard. A sunroom and laundry with second toilet, that is large enough to install a second bathroom, complete the picture.
Outside there are paved courtyards and driveway, double garage, a large light filled studio with a slow combustion fire (currently a music room but could be used for any hobby or as a sleepout), and a good garden tool shed. The garden is beautifully established in a series of garden rooms containing a fully caged orchard and vegetable garden with raised beds, lawn areas, established deciduous trees, herb garden, flowering bulbs and shrubs. Maintenance is minimal in a garden of this age.
Penrose is a small country hamlet with a population of approx. 282 people. It is on the main south railway with city rail service and has a great general store/cafe with sensational coffee and home-made healthy food. The locals are friendly and diverse; there is a rural supplies store selling stock feed, hardware and landscape materials; a small primary school which offers individual learning outcomes for its less than 20-25 students; and a great community hall with tennis courts and playground. Located on the Highland Way, Penrose is only 9kms from Bundanoon (the fastest growing town in the Southern Highlands), 35kms to Bowral and has direct access to the freeway via 7kms of good gravel road. It offers a quiet rural retreat with all town conveniences.
Well worth the trip - come and see this very special home.
