22 James Street, Thebarton SA 5031

From Google Maps it's promising in the flesh, it's downright exciting. With its no-excuse proximity to concerts, cafes and city-edge benefits (like the free tram), rolling your sleeves up for this three-bedroom, C1915 villa will be worth your while

Leave alone its Terrazzo verandah, stone faade, Baltic boards, high skirtings and 3.3m ceilings highly regarded fixtures on the renovator's list or pay yourself rental dividends in a premier pocket close to town.

Three airy bedrooms branch off a central hallway and meet an equally generous living room with fireplace. To the rear, Deco curves flatter the galley kitchen lean-to (with a hint of groove about it) made functional with loads of bench space, a new electric stove plus a rambling garden view.

And with a cosmopolitan array of dining choices on your doorstep from Henley Beach and Port Roads to Plant4 Bowden and nearby North Adelaide suddenly doing up the Deco kitchen isn't all that necessary.

Alas, the abutting sleepout has nodded off for about 50 years, so too the baby blue bathroom but this will only spark joy for renovators where excess floorspace ahead of a separate toilet sees its future as a family laundry

In fact, the whole back end could see a substantial new life unfold there are square metres galore simply raring to go (STCC.)

A concrete paved patio covered with ancient vines, a two-room dorm-style shed with louvred windows (perhaps a ventilated studio in time?) and further back, flourishing citrus, camellias and birds of paradise show the richness of the soil.

As if an original villa in the frenzy of Thebarton wasn't sought-after enough, throw valuable off-street parking in the mix hosting a rear carport with roller door two cars deep and a fully-fenced driveway for six.

So, don't be daunted - be inspired. The faint-hearted never find city-fringe gold like this.

You'll love:

- The opportunity to extend & renovate a C1915 villa
- 687sqm (approx) allotment
- 3 spacious bedrooms (one with fireplace)
- Original Baltic pine boards
- Split system R/C
- Central living room with fireplace
- Security screens to all windows
- Rear carport & off-street parking for up to six vehicles
- Tram stop convenience past the RAH
- How close the green belt of Bonython Park really is
- Foodland & Brickworks Marketplace shopping
- Hitting the Entertainment Centre or Plant4 Bowden - midweek
- Within the Adelaide High School zone

Specifications:
CT / 5614/80
Council / City of West Torrens
Zoning / R'27
Built / 1915
Land / 687m2
Council Rates / $1292.50pa
SA Water / $191.42pq
ES Levy / $277.85pa