Indicative Sale Price: $990,000 – $1,080,000

This magnificent rural lifestyle property is exactly the kind of place that will make you take a deep breath and exhale slowly with satisfaction as you cast your eyes across all that it entails. It has everything that you could wish for in a small acreage holding, and then more. Being situated in a highly esteemed lifestyle location with a majestic red gum lined creek and less than 20 minutes from Bendigo’s CBD, ensures it has and always will be, sought after.

This particular property offers a superior living standard with a very spacious quality built home and the luxury of a massive indoor entertaining venue that has been annexed to the residence and adjoins an inviting pool side alfresco area. From here you can enjoy peaceful evenings or host memorable parties immersed in the beautiful backdrop of a picturesque rural landscape with captivating distant views of Mount Alexander.

This blue chip property consists of some of the districts most coveted grazing land. It has rich fertile creek flats and has been predominantly used in the past for the fattening of beef cattle, however this very versatile property is suitable for multiple uses ranging from hobby farming, a horses breeding complex, viticulture or horticulture enterprises, a farm stay proposition or perhaps simply your own private lifestyle retreat.

The home itself has a warm country feel, with red bricks flanking the colonial style bay windows that grace all three bedrooms and the lounge room, tempered in just the right measure with the opulence bestowed by the generous proportions of each and every room within the home, so you can feel the serenity of nature with the freedom of open space.

Rustic features inside the home that bring you closer to nature include ochre floor tiles, a gracious brick feature wall around an open fire place that sits upon a raised hearth in the formal lounge, while a raised brick hearth in the family room also supports a freestanding wood heater, this not only brings them to a more appealing eye level, but also makes it safer for toddlers and pets.

The honey hues of a lacquered central hardwood column, which towers to the apex of the vaulted ceiling in the open plan area, complements the Tasmanian blackwood kitchen cabinetry. Timber dado boards add to the feel and the oval rose print glass panel in the front door framed with sidelights completes it. Picture windows in all rooms provide wonderful views over a landscape worthy of painting.

All three bedrooms are very large and have ceiling fans, the two in the south wing have built-in-robes and are well separated for privacy by the roomy laundry, separate toilet and three piece bathroom, an ideal place to light a candle while you soak in the tub or simply enjoy the rainfall showerhead, though you do have the convenient option of the handheld sprayer if you prefer. The master bedroom at the north end of the home has its own three piece ensuite with a double sized shower, which is accessed through the walk-in-robe come dressing room.

The benchtop workspace and storage space in the kitchen is enviable and you will love the stainless steel wall oven and four burner induction cooktop. A raised servery is ideal for being discrete while you entertain, and on that note you will be overwhelmed by the indoor entertaining room through French doors from the dining area.

Lovingly dubbed the blue room, for obvious reasons, this is the ultimate indoor/ outdoor space. With a polished concrete floor and mini corrugated iron ceiling, it is lit with downlights, warmed with its own freestanding wood heater and cooled by two gigantic ceiling fans, it is fitted with a TV point and has walls of windows on three sides which each have a glass sliding door. At the end it opens onto a concrete pad with a shade-sail for alfresco dining, to the left it opens to a patio with a built-in barbecue, both of these abut the gorgeous solar heated mineral pool which uses magnesium as a healthy alternative to chlorine, gentle and kind to those with sensitive skin or eyes.

The sliding door to the right leads out through the elaborate established gardens, which surround the home within the secure house yard, past the double garage which is attached to the home, towards the 8 bay shed, which has a four bay workshop with a smoke oven, a real boon to anyone who would like to prepare their own meat, and four open bays like a machinery shed. Three bays of both parts have a concrete floor. Other shedding includes a wood shed.

The land is as fertile as it is beautiful, and boasts frontage to Axe Creek which is lined with age old Red Gums. Water is abundant with two good catchment dams and tanks with a capacity of around 90 thousand litres. Four paddocks are well fenced for cattle and access is never an issue from a quiet sealed road.

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