38 Hill Street, Hawthorn

Leafy landscaped garden on a level allotment with excellent corner access creates a picturesque presence for this attractive freestanding residence where a beautiful tuckpointed Hawthorn brick façade with extra-wide frontage precedes a brilliantly renovated interior that’s perfectly flexible and filled with light. Classical character mixed with contemporary quality launches a four bedroom or three and study layout that highlights a stylish upstairs parents’ retreat and separate living areas. An exceptionally broad arched hallway on stunning solid blackbutt floorboards provides an impressive introduction to three sizable ground-floor bedrooms where two feature customised built-in robes and a third or study includes a fitted desk. A spacious living room with an open fireplace and storage provides a warm and inviting space for quiet relaxation that flows into an architect-designed rear extension launched by a powder room, laundry and an outstanding central family bathroom. A soaring-ceiling main bedroom retreat with a day-bed, built-in robes and a luxurious double-shower ensuite is privately and quietly situated above an open-plan living and dining area that with three-sided glazing offers an enticing connection to surrounding garden. Integrating a premium Ilve/Miele-appointed gourmet kitchen and vertical light-court garden, double-glazed bifold doors and a retractable screen open to a lush courtyard setting with an alfresco terrace for peaceful entertaining. Other attributes include hydronic heating, split-system air-conditioner, ceiling fans, heated towel rails, plantation shutters, attic ladder storage, rainwater tank, automated irrigation as well as front and side gate access. Enviably located in the St James Park precinct, this impeccably presented home offers desirable proximity to sought-after schools, Hawthorn Village cafes and train station, trams, Glenferrie Road shopping and Yarra River nature trails.