HELLO HIGHGATE- Life on the Avenue
This 1948 Stone fronted home is Exactly what it is cracked up to be! Street Appeal-Outstanding Address – Enviable Location – Rare Opportunity. It is 65 years old, has loads of character while having seen better days and is now showing the years.
Is it time to retire, re wire or go higher? Builders, Renovators, Retirees and 1st Homers, this is a real discovery. It’s up to you to decide the future. There’s great potential to create your dream home. Development is subject to Council consent.
So is it go quietly, go out with a bang! or have a full body lift and makeover while retaining the character and sense of history.
Many original features are salvageable, and most recent updates include an eat in, solid blackwood timber kitchen with extensive storage, all gas range and the black and white heritage look bathroom-There’s an instantaneous gas hot water system , 2 toilets and a spacious seperate laundry.The formal Lounge, Dining room has been opened up to provide a flexible room with dimensions which can accommodate large furniture.
There arer two bedroom both with double mirror BIR’s, eat in kitchen, along with a generous 1980 family room addition with double sliding doors to an extensive covered entertainment courtyard, paving and mature border plantings. Well fenced the home comes with a double galv workshop with power and lighting, there’s a tilt up door and private pedestrian door . As well there’s a secure remote access roller door garage and ample off street parking.The home has circuit breakers and a safety switch.
High Ceilings, ornate plasterwork, timber floors, a carved Jacobean, twist ornate blackwood fireplace and mantle with cast iron grate give a sense of the original style. Also brush front fence, Colour Bond roofing , veranda glazed capping bricks and etched double front glassdoors add to the mix.
It’s both desirable and affordable as well as challenging! On approx 535 sqm. the home is around 133sqm and allotments of this size with a 14