Charming Family Home in this Historic Garden Suburb

What a wonderful opportunity to buy a charming 1920′s bungalow comprising some 8 main rooms, in a beautiful garden setting on approximately 702m2 allotment with a pool.
Steeped in history, this highly sought after area of Colonel Light Gardens offers a perfect family lifestyle within walking distance of parks, playgrounds, sporting clubs, schools and a new funky caf, The Stranded Store, which adds to the community feel of the area.
The Mitcham Shopping Precinct complete with picture theatres, cafes and gym is at the end of the street plus it is only a short distance from the city.
Set amongst other quality character homes this delightful home offers:
- A lovely wide entrance hall with ornate dome ceiling
- Three double bedrooms, all with built-in robes
- Kitchen with quality cupboards plus new oven and hotplates
- Dining adjacent kitchen
- Family room with combustion heating and opening to back garden
- Cosy sitting room also looking out onto back garden
- Study area
- Bathroom with bath, separate shower and vanity
- Separate laundry
- Ducted air conditioning
- Stunning polished Baltic Pine flooring
- Warm neutral dcor throughout
- Swimming pool in pretty garden setting
- Garage and carport
Definitely one not to be missed!!
Best Offer By: Wednesday 4th September at 1pm
Zina Sutton 0418 828900

The suburb of Colonel Light Gardens is significant for the following reasons:

- It exemplifies the theories of town planning of the early 20th century based
on the Garden City concept, and is considered the most complete and
representative example of a Garden Suburb in Australia, combining both town
planning, aesthetic and social elements into a coherent plan. The public and
private spaces of the suburb meld to create a distinctive three-dimensional
suburban design.

- It represents the best work of Charles C Reade, who was the first appointed
Town Planner in Australia and South Australian Government Planner from
1916-1920. Reade was the leading exponent of the Garden City Movement to
practice in Australia.

- It is the repository of the majority of houses built under the mass housing
programme of the Labor Government of 1920s known as the Thousand
Homes Scheme and became the area identified with the Scheme. International
visitors were taken to view the housing developments at Colonel Light
Gardens during the 1920s.

- It contains a homogenous style of residential architecture representing the
particular workingman’s house idiom of the mid-1920s, developed from the
Californian Bungalow design.

- It is the embodiment of other, more ephemeral social concepts of the 1920s such
as ‘post war reconstruction’, ‘home for returned soldiers’ and ‘community spirit
and self help’ which lead to the creation and development of a community.
Colonel Light Gardens is therefore recognised as part of the environmental, social
and cultural heritage of the State which is of significant aesthetic, architectural,
historical and cultural interest; and qualifies for declaration as a State Heritage
Area under the terms of the South Australian Heritage Act of 1993.

This Statement of Heritage Value is taken from the City of Mitcham Development Plan.