Make history with yesterday’s beauty, today’s poolside living and around 1016sqm of blue-chip Bayside land. One of the last great Victorian residences in this leafy park and school zone precinct, this substantial c.1888 home is a unique family lifestyle opportunity…set in a unique landscape of tall peppercorn trees, multiple alfresco zones and sun-drenched pool surrounds beyond a sweeping 20m frontage.Offering up to five bedrooms, four bathrooms (three ensuites) and a home-office across a gracious main home and a self-contained poolside studio, the property adapts to every style of family with a choice of master-suites front and rear - each with French doors to the garden…one with direct pool access. Ready to welcome a big busy family with a modern triple zone plan, the home is grandly scaled with a French-doored formal lounge, soaring split-level family living and dining, and a quiet fire-warmed media lounge. There’s even a welcome for adult children, involved in-laws, fortunate guests, or a work-from-home business in the garden studio - linked to the pool by its own vine-draped deck beyond a wall of bi-folds. Warm and welcoming by design with a Shaker-style Ilve appliance kitchen facing the pool across the al fresco deck, and individually-detailed stone-finished bespoke bathrooms and ensuites, the home is richly layered with cool stone benchtops, warm Baltic Pine boards, hardwood floors and plantation-shutters against a backdrop of fine period detail. A grand design of its time with a wide latticed veranda, deep corniced ceilings rising to rarely seen 3.7m heights, and a sparkling leadlight entry, the home’s extended areas honour the home’s original spirit - with a soaring ‘schoolhouse’ roofline, tall slide-away doors, a sun-catching bay-window seat, and a lofty coved ceiling for the principal suite. Centrally heated, reverse-cycle air-conditioned and fan-cooled with three walk-in-robes plus a family storeroom, all the lifestyle extras are here. But the biggest extra of all lies in these extraordinary grounds. Broadly beautiful with a formal front yard, glass-fenced solar-heated pool with spa-area, and a bonus hedged and lawned north-facing side garden, the property has an outdoor space for every occasion. BBQ in the sun, entertain on multiple decks, lounge on limestone pool surrounds …all while the kids bounce around on the in-ground trampoline.Just 100m to Landcox Park and a perfect two block distance from tightly-zoned Gardenvale Primary School, even the location adds to the unique lifestyle here - a relaxed 10 minute walk through Landcox Park to Bay St’s café society and station, an easy cycle to the central Brighton schools, and 5 minutes to Church St and the Golden Mile beachfront. For more information about this substantial c.1888 estate contact Adam Gillon at Buxton Hampton East on 0418 313 354 or Angelo Nikitas at Buxton Bentleigh on 0412 161 877 or the Buxton Office on 9563 9933
