Best offers by 12pm Thursday 29th March 2018 (unless sold prior)
If the ancient trees and old vines could talk, they'd tell a story of family, famous scientists, garden parties of 100 people or more, a sheep named George, horse rides, and days by the dam...
Welcome to 'The Laurels'; an 1880-built farmhouse, periodically extended to take a slice of Hills history into the future on over nine acres of enchanting South Australia, just 25-minutes from the CBD.
Fittingly hidden behind a laurel hedge, your six paddocks, shedding galore, retired stables area, spring-fed dam, and orchard suddenly appear to feel like a world away and frame a sandstone villa once home to Sir Mark Oliphant.
The original four bedroom home stands strong to this day and basks in its polished pines floors, 3.4-metre high ceilings, colourful leadlight, fireplaces and stately sized rooms.
Then, suddenly, it all doubles in size to add a wing entirely dedicated to the parents or your income-supplementing AirBnB guests.
A gabled sunroom marks the transition from a country kitchen/dining room to that retreat with its own lounge/dressing room, en suite and picture windows to the enchanting world outside. Good morning.
It is now a home with equal parts character and contemporary functionality; the perfect base to a property that puts your kids and horses within a short, safe canter away from the Mylor Pony Club. No floats needed.
Stop to taste the sweet mulberries amongst many fruit trees, and say hello to George - the friendliest ball of wool you'll ever meet; and a reminder that you can keep an array of animals here.
And what feels like a world away is also just a short drive from world-class wineries - think Nepenthe and Shaw and Smith - and historical Hahndorf. Magic, indeed.
More reasons why we love this home:
- Beautifully restored original home with stylishly sympathetic extension
- Close to public transport/bus route to CBD and a range of schools and colleges
- Garaging for 5+ cars
- Chicken run, woodshed, workshop, stables area and stock yards
- Flat main paddock for potential horse arena
- Spacious country kitchen with solid timber bench tops, central island and suspended range hood
- Spring fed dam
- Environmentally friendly water/waste management system with new pump - grey water to gardens
- Veggie patch and array of fruit trees, including apple, raspberry, fig, nectarine, pear, lemon, lime and many more
- 60,000L of rainwater storage
- Many alfresco entertaining options - including vine covered BBQ area and garden terraces
- Study
- Built-in robes to parent's retreat
- Combustion wood fire places
- And so many more.
Specifications:
CT / 5091/196
Council / City of Adelaide Hills
Zoning / W(PP)'2
Built / 1880
Land / 9.5A
Council Rates / $2,599pa
ES Levy / $459.05pa
All information provided has been obtained from sources we believe to be accurate, however, we cannot guarantee the information is accurate and we accept no liability for any errors or omissions (including but not limited to a property's land size, floor plans and size, building age and condition) Interested parties should make their own enquiries and obtain their own legal advice. Should this property be scheduled for auction, the Vendor's Statement may be inspected at any Harris Real Estate office for 3 consecutive business days immediately preceding the auction and at the auction for 30 minutes before it starts.
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