A breathtakingly beautiful world unfolds from within the gateway of this architecturally designed country house and garden. Even in an area renowned for its natural beauty, this property has a blow-you-away uniqueness that sets it worlds apart. Some 20 years ago, the vendors took a once in a life time chance to create their dream Mt Wilson escape. Today, their stunning home hugs a wooded ridge top, nestled on a sandstone eyrie at the end of a quiet cul-de-sac, with a grand scale garden that cascades away in gentle terraces to forever views over wilderness.
From the generously proportioned driveway/forecourt entrance, a two-storey tower swathed in Virginia creeper offers a unique welcome, promising more delights to come. Self-contained, the tower features a storybook spiral staircase leading to a lofty bedroom. From this entrance, the rest of the home graciously unfolds. Two entrances, generous hall ways, varied ceiling height levels and a meandering floorplan all create a generous and relaxing sense of interior space. The seamless flow between indoor and outdoor living, coupled with large picture windows throughout, maximises every glorious aspect. The natural hues of the travertine tiles (in the French provincial pattern) in the living areas and bathrooms harmonise with the surrounding sandstone escarpments. Lush carpets in the bedrooms create a sense of luxury. A colonnaded terrace flows from the main living area, covered in festoons of wisteria in Spring that create a leafy haven for summer dining. With views through the garden to the gorge below, it is a dream for entertaining.
Lovers of classical Mediterranean gardens will be entranced by what has been created at ‘Wollemi'. Two of the property's 5 acres have been landscaped, with sensitivity to the topography and stunning natural features. With the fortune to span both basalt and sandstone soils, plantings are diverse, low maintenance and robust. A cascade of grassy terraces gently falls away from the house, framed by the stunning vertical lines of a magnificent stand of Blue Mountains Ash. Pebbled pathways, basalt drystone walls and the clever use of hedges separates garden ‘rooms' and defines spaces, creating gorgeous surprises. Perhaps the best ‘hidden' surprise of all is an amazing outcrop of sandstone boulders. They are clustered atop a cliff-line of Bowens Creek gorge at the very edge of the garden, a private, expansive outlook for soaking in the amazing sunsets. A bush path beneath the outcrop leads to a very special Aboriginal cave.
•Quiet location on a ridgeline cul-de-sac, with only one neighbour and adjacent to Wynnes Rocks Lookout Reserve
•The tower is well suited to guest accommodation or as a Airbnb, with a self-contained kitchen, bedroom and bathroom
•A detached single colourbond garage with mains power
•Large open wood fire in the lounge plus central heating run on large LPG cylinders
•Water sourced from 3x22,000 litre water tanks
•Sunny, semi-circular breakfast room off the kitchen
•Waste water purified and recycled to the garden via an Econocycle system
•Good TV and mobile reception and a Telstra land line with ADSL
•Interior lay out of the house designed to give a feeling of flowing space and almost floor to ceiling windows that allow light to flow in and the gardens to be seen in their full glory
•Architect plans available for four extension options if desired
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