5C Maple Grove, Toorak

Perched between illustrious Irving and Clendon Roads, this elegant and evocative, entire-floor penthouse with elevator access and garaging for five represents the pinnacle of lock-and-leave luxe in Melbourne’s most exclusive enclave. Beyond two security gates and Maple Grove’s signature foliage, the one-of-three residence’s vast interiors are flanked by outdoor settings on all four sides to weave light, airiness, and floral scenery into everyday life. High ceilings and herringbone parquetry are quick to impress, with a free-flowing floor plan ensuring accommodation and entertaining both enjoy their own distinct domains. With opposite sets of French doors opening for a delightful breeze on a summer’s evening, broad living and dining spaces are ideal counterparts to window-side sitting and casual meals areas. A gourmet kitchen is certain to excite the most passionate of home chefs, with a waterfall island and high-grade granite centrepieces among abundant storage, an integrated Liebherr fridge/freezer, and range-topping Miele oven pair, gas stove, and dishwasher. A feature terrace wraps around main spaces to be a dream for large-scale hospitality, with inside and out combining for memorable dinner parties, blue-sky barbecues, and evening cocktails capturing vivid sunsets. Both sumptuous and substantial, a first-class primary bedroom enjoys a skylit dressing room, northern balcony, and lavish ensuite with twin basins, while walk-in and built-in robes, two chic ensuites, and direct outdoor access service guest and third bedrooms collectively. An oversized office with its own ensuite and private balcony doubles as a fourth bedroom when visitors arrive, while an upper library’s domed ceiling, central skylight, and profuse shelving elevate the abode’s appeal beyond compare. The perfect step to apartment living from a marquee family home, a long list of further highlights includes reverse-cycle heating/cooling, sensor lights, integrated audio, electric blinds, a video intercom, alarm, powder room, full-size laundry, and three basement storerooms. Quietly hidden away from thoroughfares while no more than metres to the heart of the action, it’s mere footsteps to the cuisine, retail, and nightlife of Toorak and Hawksburn Villages, quaint Beatty Avenue, ever-fashionable High Street, Toorak Station, and trams passing Chapel Street, Albert Park Lake, and the Arts Centre en route to the CBD.