This beautiful country-style house dates from the early part of the 20th Century, and retains many original features including 9 foot high ceilings, patterned cornices, original fire places and a classic cottage garden with established trees, a surrounding hedge and an old well.
This much loved home has been very well cared for and was fully renovated in 2008 in consultation with an architect. The original features were maintained with sympathetic renovations, including an extension with two new bathrooms. The fixtures and fitting enhance the 19th century charm while making this a very comfortable home.
A relocation has lead to the offering for sale of 65 Rutledge St, many years and milestones have been enjoyed here and now it is your chance to secure a rare offering of an historic home in beautiful order. Few homes of this vintage are as comfortable as this home is - double glazing, in-slab heating in the bathrooms, hydronic heating panels throughout and open fireplaces as well as good insulation make this a warm, sunny and light home.
Entertaining will be enjoyable here with a choice of formal and casual living areas and a beautiful garden with a choice of terrace and pergola or a fire pit setting for the colder months. The design of the cottage garden was enhanced by a highly-regarded landscape architect resulting in a low maintenance but well established garden with pockets of colour and beauty year round.
Key Features Include-
External:
Circa 1920s weatherboard house - renovated and architect designed extension completed in 2008
Landscape garden design - as seen in Art Gardens of Australia
Travertine chequer-board paving with Old Canberra bricks
Pergola - hardwood recycled beams sourced from Thor's Hammer, Yarralumla
Fully bricked and glass covered circular well
Cottage landscape garden - with David Austin roses, fruit trees, hedges
External fire pit with bench seating
Carport - 2 cars
External lighting including a copper and brass Il Fanale Italian made light (LightCo, Surry Hills) on the front porch and other external copper lighting
Internal
Weatherboard-lined internal walls
Hardwood polished floors - Tasmanian oak / Victorian ash
Pure wool carpet (2 bedrooms and large sitting room)
Built-in wardrobes in all bedrooms
Main bedroom has double doors (Chippendale Restorations) facing north & leading onto wrap around verandah and garden
2nd larger room - external access to wrap around verandah
Study/4th bedroom - facing north onto garden with day bed window
Original doors throughout - including old pine, 1920/30s to match period of house
Additional storage including a large linen storage cupboard
Fitted Laundry
All windows are wooden (Country Style windows) and double glazed
Double-glazed doors leading onto paved courtyard with internal-retractable fly-screen
9 foot ceilings in old part of house & in sitting room & bathroom extension
Hydronic heating throughout (heated with natural gas)
Fully insulated
2 bathrooms - with timed-heated travertine floors (Aeria Country Floors, Sydney)
Villeroy & Boch toilets & bathroom sink, old restored enamel sink
3 working open fireplaces (in kitchen, study/bedroom and sitting room extension)
Kitchen - from Select Custom Joinery using natural products, hardwood, hoop-pine ply, bamboo lining, marmoleum, soft closing drawers / quantum quartz kitchen benches
St George 900mm oven
Highland gas cooktop - with wok burner
Large walk in pantry
Wood box - with external/internal access to sitting room
Rarely do homes of this vintage come onto the village market, let alone in such good order - do not miss this one as there is not another quite like it in Bungendore. For more information or to arrange an inspection please contact Ellie Merriman on 0402 117 877 or at the office on 6238 0700.
Bungendore is located just 15 minutes from HQJOC, 20 minutes to Queanbeyan and an easy 40 minute commute into Canberra's CBD, school buses to Braidwood and Canberra are in abundance (North , South Canberra and Queanbeyan). There is a local IGA, primary school, pre-school and child care centres as well as many other services including Naturopath, Doctors, Physio, Bakeries, Cafes and restaurants, motels and hotels and numerous shops reside in Bungendore as the town grows in tourist numbers.
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