Western River Homestead is situated on the north coast of Kangaroo Island on approximately 100 acres at the foot of Western River Cove. This part of the Island is renowned worldwide for its abundance of native wildlife as well as excellent whiting, snapper, tuna and crayfishing along the coast and marron and yabbies in the river and dams.
The historic homestead was redesigned and extended by leading Adelaide architect, Rob Williams with a magnificent, pillared verandah surrounding the home and glorious garden and hill views from each of the rooms.
The entire front of the house is given over to free-flowing living areas, with a huge kitchen/ dining room, formal and informal reception rooms and extra wide entrance hall. All rooms other than kitchen and dining area, bathrooms and laundry have polished wood floors while the kitchen, laundry and third bathroom have limestone tiles. There is underfloor heating in the kitchen and dining area and gas and combustion heating to the informal and formal living rooms.
A passage separates the living areas from the three double bedrooms, main with French doors to the garden, space for a walk-in robe and an ensuite bathroom.
There are two other bathrooms and a laundry with good storage.
An entertainer's kitchen with pull-out pantry, two dishwasher drawers and Italian gas cooktop, electric oven and combination microwave-oven (all recently replaced). There is space for two refrigerators, extensive built-in storage, and huge polished composite stone benchtops.
The property includes: •A fabulous separate two bedroom barn-conversion, built with timbers from the wreck of the Portland Maru. Perfect for holiday rental or any overflow of guests. This cottage has open plan living and a mezzanine floor and includes a timber kitchen and bathroom facilities •Widely acclaimed Mediterranean garden with many valuable and rare plants and sweeping lawns •A separate fully enclosed orchard •A high-pitched double door shed for boat and implement storage •Large heritage fruit trees including two enormous mulberry trees, olive trees and fig trees planted around 1900, all bearing prolifically •Two dams and a river running through the property •32,000 gallon rainwater tank supplying the house •Stone ruins with enormous potential to redevelop for tourism •Free and unrestricted right of way to private boat launching facilities in adjacent private harbour
