Final Inspections now only by appointment.
This beautiful, classic and very spacious Queenslander cottage in the blue chip suburb of Bardon, was a 2 bedroom, converted into a 3 bedroom. There’s a large lounge room, miles of kitchen bench space atop the many kitchen cupboards (22 doors /3 large drawers/4 regular drawers), an 18m2 front covered veranda and a 20m2 rear deck for lots of outdoor living. It’s fantastic high location offers cooling breezes all summer and panoramic views of the green leafy grounds of the Queensland Governors Mansion to the left, the expansive green gardens of Norm Buchan Park in the centre which lays at the foot of the city CBD, fully visible above it through a natural valley behind the park. The rolling leafy hills of Rosalie & Toowong are the view off to the right. Sunsets & sunrises here can be breathtaking.

It’s also in the catchment area for Brisbane’s most highly sought after schools – Stuartholme & Rainworth.

The home features all classic 1910-20s style features; giant & quite rare 9 foot (2.7 metre high) floor to almost ceiling* sash windows in the front, sought after 6 inch Hoop pine floor boards throughout, period archways and beautiful hand cut decorative fret board breezeway panels above the doors. And the all important front to back hallway that allows the breezes to flow through to every room. (Ceilings are 3.25 metres high)

Dual Living w separate downstairs apartment / Granny Flat / Large 5 bedroom Family home – the choice & timing is yours to decide:

The house has already been lifted up to well above minimum regulation height. This will allow a real “Queenslander feel” in terms of ceiling height when a 2 room fully self contained apartment or luxury sized granny flat are built in underneath.

Another option is to simply add 4th & 5th bedrooms to make it a large pet-friendly, family home with room for a big rumpus/cinema room, 2nd kitchen extra bathroom/laundry to the existing house for a bigger family or in your own time, go with the apartment to add rental yield power!
All the plumbing has already also been added in ready for the downstairs level to proceed -see info at the bottom of this page re: a great source of materials to build in under with. There is also room for a second car space &
95% of the garden has been developed to be zero maintenance so you can focus on other more important things.

It’s a super location 4 kilometres from the CBD, surrounded by character homes, a nearby variety of delicious restaurants, cafes, bars, gourmet deli & cinemas precinct. It’s close to some excellent kindy, primary & high schools, the 3 campuses of the top 2 Queensland universities, an excellent gym w/ heated pool, a free to access & play on tennis court and 4 major supermarkets within 1-2 kilometres.

Living here for the last 15 years has been very comfortable, convenient and enjoyable, I also got really fit. The addition of the farmers markets right across the road in the park every Sunday 6am-12 means cheap & good quality fresh fruit & veggies & fresh caught seafood from a Stradbroke Island Fisherman (Fish, Bugs, Oysters, prawns etc) are a 200m stroll away. 200 metres in the other direction is Rainworth Seafoods & an artisan bakery & buses to the City. The local primary school is 200m past the bakery.

At the rear of the house is a great entertainers deck, flowing down to a BBQ patio, then stairs follow up around a beautiful Poinciana tree that keeps the back of the house, deck & back yard nice and cool all summer. There is currently a hammock hanging from it great for reading in which we are happy to leave for you.

Smart buying!
a similar era Qlder on the same sized 405 m2 block sold several blocks away on the weekend just gone for $660k and only had 80% of the current floor space of this house.

Other works completed:
- 2005 the closed in front veranda was exposed for more outdoor living space & all the old walls & louvres removed (if you had a growing family there is no reason why you couldn’t create 1 or 2 sleep outs here for interim extra rooms on a budget.
- The entire roof was replaced in 2006 (required by the Council when you move & lift up a house) but the heritage red roof colour maintained.
- Any less than perfect exterior wall boards were removed & replaced with new.
- The whole house exterior was professionally painted with 4 coats and the bathroom was renovated & a new aggregate concrete driveway & front steps were added in 2006.
- A newer 22 cupboard-door kitchen & $1000 brand new dishwasher replaced the old original kitchen in 2007.
- the bathroom / toilet/laundry & rear foyer rooms have all been recently painted this year.
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please note – the final Open House has been concluded, thanks to all who came. There will be limited opportunity for private inspections up until 3pm Thursday. (enquire via the “email agent button on this site) and final offers are being accepted up until Close of business Friday Dec 11.
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Thinking about the build in under options? This 2 bedroom Queenslander house (see link below) is free for removal in Yeronga and would probably give you virtually all of the features, wall, floor, window & ceiling materials needed to complete an authentic addition of a second level in the true Queenslander style:

http://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/yeronga/property-for-sale/a-free-house-to-be-removed-by-new-owner/1094615422