HouseBurwood (Australia)

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bedrooms4 bathrooms3 land1,992 m²

Set astride nearly 2000 square metres of mature rustic gardens, this solid, attractively refurbished, landmark Colonial family Homestead (circa 1886), provides privacy, space, prestige, and quiet, with a charming country-like ambience, and ample parking.There are four substantial garden-view bedrooms - two with doors to front driveway – and three bathrooms, including a skylit ensuite. Bronte Homestead features gracious formal living and dining rooms. The ‘Big Room’, with its French doors, merges Bronte’s sunny, north-facing indoor-outdoor living spaces to the covered, return-veranda, huge, leafy, leisure garden, bordered by wine-quality Cabernet Franc and Muscat grape vines. Additionally, the kitchen gardens feature seven thriving, elevated, vegetable beds, kiwifruit, pears, and varieties of citrus, stone-fruit, and apple.Also offering an intimate, casual space to relax, and feed the family, is a brick-hewn breakfast room - with charming pot belly stove - and modern, skylit, cottage kitchen. Defined by an understated blend of original period elegance, Bronte’s features include: high ceilings; Baltic pine floors; ornate ceiling Roses; grand arch and fireplaces; bluestone window-sills and foundations; timber-posted bluestone veranda; and double-gabled slate roof. Today’s Bronte also includes: a home office; entrance foyer; lockup, skylit, studio/single garage; hydronic heating; gas-log fireplace; split system cooling; roof-fed garden water tanks (18,000-litre); remote alarm and CCTV; and feed-in solar power.Bronte is close to: Deakin University, and schools such as PLC and Mount Waverley Secondary College; Brickworks (world class) shopping centre; the Suburban Rail Link (SRL) railway station and professional hub; Gardiner’s Creek Nature Reserve; and trams and buses. Bronte Homestead, a distinctive, generously-sized property, provides exciting potential for family lifestyle, work-from-home, and optional building extensions (STCA).