63 Templeton Street

This fabulous 1930s brick three-bedroom home combines exceptional period charm with an ideal location and enfolds you like a warm embrace. Offering a generous 985 sqm commercially zoned allotment within 400m to the Castlemaine Train Station and 500m to historic Mostyn Street, the location is everything. A wrap-around front verandah leads to the beautiful period timber double front doors with a curved detail inlaid with frosted glass. An entrance hall greets you before double doors lead to the generous living room with a gas heater surrounded by a stone fireplace and period timber shelving. A central hall connects to the three bedrooms with built-in robes, the kitchen with a gas cooktop and under-mount oven and country-style cabinets, and a dining room with an electric heater with a period brick surround and a split system. Completing the internal floorplan is a north-facing sunroom/ study, and servicing the home is a bathroom with a shower, vanity, toilet, an additional toilet and a large laundry with storage. Period details include high ceilings with ornate plasterwork, pendant lighting, timber detailing, stained glass, frosted glass, deep recessed windows and picture rails. Updates include carpet in the living and bedrooms, two lightwells and exterior blinds. The generous north-facing back garden features a side driveway leading to two remote-door garages (both 3.1m x 6.2m), one with two-way access that leads to a further garage (2.9m x 6.2m) at the back of the property with an adjoining carport/ workshop (2.3m x 6.2m). The tiered low-maintenance garden includes a garden/ potting shed (2.8m x 4m) additional shed/ chook pen (6m x 2.4m), raised veggie garden, compost bays, a water tank and an iconic Hills Hoist clothesline. With an enviable location, commercial zoning and the potential to sub-divide (STCA), this is a home to embrace.