This ultimate lifestyle retreat offers the perfect blend of comfort and self-sufficiency, nestled just 19 minutes from Euroa and under 2 hours from Melbourne.
The charming 1930s home features original period details, including triple-pane windows, high ceilings, and a wrap-around verandah. Inside, you'll find an inviting entrance hall, 2 large bedrooms, open-plan living, dining, and kitchen area, complete with a Westinghouse electric oven, ceramic cooktop, dishwasher, and pantry. The sparkling new bathroom offers a frameless walk-in shower and heated flooring. Enjoy the comforts of a fan forced wood fire box in the original fire place, two reverse-cycle split systems, heat transfer vents to the bedrooms and instant gas hot water ensuring year-round comfort. Step outside to the undercover outdoor entertaining area, featuring a bar, sauna, and spa that runs on power or gas. There is also a good sized laundry and second toilet.
Surrounded by mature trees such as oaks, flowering gums, a Japanese maple, crepe myrtle, liquid amber, Polomoa, rhododendrons, camellias, and lilac, the property offers a picturesque setting. The orchard is stocked with a variety of fruit trees, including orange, lemon, lime, grapefruit, apricot, apple, pear, plum, cherries, fig, and crab apple.
Water supply is exceptional, with five rainwater tanks, an excellent dam, and riparian rights to spring-fed water piped to a holding tank and pressurized for household and garden use. Also included is a 11 kVa FG Wilson Generator, a 2.5 kW solar system connected to the grid, along with automatic pressurized fire protection sprinklers on the roof.
The land spans approximately 26 hectares (66 acres) of rolling granite hills with breathtaking valley views and a permanent creek running through the property. Divided into eight well-fenced paddocks, the property is ideal for grazing with selected areas suitable for horticulture or viticulture. Infrastructure includes a large lock-up shed with concrete floor and power, a carport, a workshop, a small machinery shed housing the generator and ride-on mower, two woodsheds and an office or potential third bedroom.
With its undulating granite terrain running up to the rear boundary, ideal for nature walks, and abundant native flora and fauna, this property is located just 20 km from Euroa, near Ruffy Township, and 165 km from Melbourne via the Hume Freeway. This is a rare opportunity for a lifestyle retreat that truly has it all. Inspection is sure to impress.
