Bremer Springs': an off-grid, tailor-made home with views to live for!
Looking across your own beautiful valley where history, landscape and liveability perfectly combine, there could be no better rural lifestyle property than this.
Bremer Springs sits on 100 very manageable acres, once part of Bremer Springs Station, a significant contributor to Harrogate's pastoral history. A long, shared driveway takes you well away from the road until you enter the property through automatic gates. Here you bridge the Bremer River and the deep permanent waterhole that is such a feature of this special place. Several generations of river red-gums stud the riverbank and paddocks, towering ancients claiming prominent positions for themselves and the abundant birdlife they host.
Following the Bremer further along the wide flat floor of the valley, the driveway passes the grassed horse arena, which is 40 by 20 metres with tack room and three-bay shed immediately adjacent. You begin to sense what it would be like to explore this landscape on horseback, trail bike or foot.
Driving on, you discover the wonderful bonfire area - the spot, says the current owner, where many camping weekends have been spent with friends since the homestead was established some ten years ago - and the reeds and lush grass around the natural spring that provides water all-year-round. And now, some minutes since entering Bremer Springs, you see the house resting halfway up a hill (one of several you can call your own) in the large, well fenced home-paddock.
This is the moment, as you look back over the road you've just travelled, that the breathtaking views offered by the house are revealed: the river on the left (with Mount Barker Summit in the distance), and on the right (under your very feet) the rolling hills of the Bremer Ranges that embrace the private valley you could now call home. You might readily picture horses and other livestock sharing this place with you, there being four paddocks.
The four-bedroom home (or three plus study) was designed for the current owners in response to the unique combination of hillside stance, sunshine and views. It offers much to make this the perfect Adelaide Hills' retreat, proudly adopting the style of an earlier era: high, corniced ceilings, sash windows, clawfoot bath, bay windows, feature timber floors, French doors and a boot-room/porch at the rear.
A large kitchen with informal dining and huge walk-in pantry (and a Nectre wood heater that will also cook your pizza), master ensuite and walk-in robe, large family bathroom, dining room and bay-windowed living room complete the floorplan. Near the house is a six-bay shed plus workshop with power, wet area and mezzanine storage: a wonderful asset.
Domestic water needs are served by a concrete rainwater tank (132,000 litres) via a 10,000-litre hilltop header tank. There is also a back-up supply of water available (but never called upon by the current owner) from the Bremer River and the permanent spring ensures ample water supply is available all year round. Water supplies for garden and stock are provided by the Bremer River and the Spring and a water map will be provided to the purchaser upon settlement.
You will also enjoy energy independence here, with 3.5KW solar panels supported by battery storage and automatic generator backup, and solar hot water (gas boosted).
This is a chance to enjoy authentic rural living and yet - as the present owners have found - still be within reasonable commuting distance of the city.
• 4 -bedroom (or 3 bed + study) Federation style home
• circa 2010 build
• 100 acres divided into four paddocks
• kitchen/informal dining with large walk-in pantry, tiled floor, Nectre s/c heater/oven
• dining room with French doors to verandah
• Music room (alt. bedroom) with French Doors
• living room with bay window and s/c heater
• master bedroom with walk-through robe, ensuite bathroom and bay window
• ample storage with built-in robes and linen cupboards
• large family bathroom with modern clawfoot bath
• rear boot-room/porch
• laundry with storage and access to rear porch
• plumbed for click-connect gas heaters
• large, level outdoor entertaining area with hills views
• off-grid power: 3.5KW with battery storage and automatic generator back-up
• solar HWS with gas boost
• water security: rainwater to 132,000 concrete tank, permanent river waterhole, permanent natural spring
• three-rail timber fence to house paddock
• 40x20m horse arena with tack room
• Closely located large 3-bay shed for implements and hay
• substantial 6-bay shed (3 bays with concrete floors) and fully enclosed workshop/studio with power, mezzanine storage and wet area
