Shall I compare thee to a Summer’s Day?…. Sitting among the ferns by the creek just metres from your back door at this delightful home, it’s so picturesque it makes you want to write poetry. Or, you know, plagiarise Shakespeare. This 5 bedroom, weatherboard house sits on 5 acres and comes with enough outbuildings and a spectacular orchard to be self sufficient and have the most idyllic family lifestyle.

The house is ready for a lick of paint inside but the grand nature of this home is evident everywhere. The oak panelling on the walls, the hallway long enough to play cricket down, the master bedroom big enough to play chaseys, the formal living room with ornate brickwork on the fireplaces, the stunning timber lined sunroom. This old girl has a lot of stories to tell and is ready for the next generation to enjoy her.

The kitchen dining room features the original ESSE Ironheart wood fired stove as well as an electric oven. Nothing says family home like the smell of soup or stock simmering on top of the ESSE. There is a large living room and down by the bedrooms, past the kids bowling in the hall, you will find a second sitting room. The sunroom makes a perfect office space or 6th bedroom.

The orchard features over 30 different varieties of fruit trees under a full net enclosure so it is protected from birds. Included in the outbuildings is a old piggery and the land is divided into 6 paddocks. The Factory Creek provides a permanent water supply to the house.

Pyengana is a charming dairy farming town 20 minutes to Blue Tier Mountain Bike Trails and 20 minutes to St Helens. Pyengana has a roadhouse and is 5 minutes to the famous Pyengana cheese factory and Pub in the Paddock and St Columba Falls.

I love this property. It’s hard not to. Sitting proud on the landscape all painted yellow like a slice of lemon cheesecake, it’s yelling out for its next family to enjoy, or alternatively, it’s big enough to run a bed and breakfast on the way through from popular Derby to St Helens. Call to inspect.