This beautiful, Cape Cod style 3 storey family home really brings back the feel of yester-year. Magnificently and generously proportioned, the rooms flow one into the other with impressive grandeur. A variety of timbers, including teak and cedar, is used throughout and suggests warmth and elegance.
From the imposing entry to the fully-wired media room on the basement level, this home is just right. Throughout the ground floor, lime-washed ceilings, deep skirtings and polished timber floors define the style. A well appointed country kitchen with concealed dish-washer, beautiful formal dining room - just right with its antique crystal chandeliers - and flow-through family room, formal lounge and master's study create the impression of a grand country home from another era. The master bedroom and dual-entry ensuite bathroom also occupy this level. Imagine family Christmas's in a home like this!
Downstairs features 2 large family rooms - one the media room and the other an as yet unfinished but fully-lined multi-purpose room just waiting for you to decide the role it is to play in the home. Attractive glass and timber doors lead from this large room to the garden and flood it with light. Ideal for an artist's studio or similar - what a great blank canvas on which to make your mark. Storage and a large laundry with separate w.c. complete this level.
The other 3 bedrooms, (2 built-in and one partly built-in), the character-filled family bathroom and another family room occupy the 3rd floor. This family room is ideal as either a play area for younger children or retreat for teens or guests. As if there were not enough room in this house, a loft space is easily accessed by pull-down staircase from here.
A large shed provides garaging space for 1 to 2 cars and a workshop area. Both house and shed are connected to 3-phase power. There is room for at least 4 more cars in the forecourt of the driveway, and a security system is in place to watch over it. All this on just over 5 cleared acres so close to town, (the border of Blackmans Bay and Howden runs through the property), and with views across the valley and to North-West Bay.
The home needs a little TLC to really restore it to glory, but the asking price takes this into account; and to make any future renovations easy - a scissor-lift travel tower that more than covers the 3 storeys is included in the sale! This is a real opportunity to acquire a grand family home at the right price.
This home is an absolute icon in the area. Opportunities such as this don't come every day - don't miss it!
- 3 storey Cape Cod style country home
- Grand interior, elegant flowing design
- Features formal dining & master's study
- Media room & huge studio/garden room
- Polished floors & lime-wash ceilings
Year built: Early 1990's Construction type: Weatherboard
