Renovator’s delight on 929m. Send the kids to Saints. A stellar opportunity to create the family home of your dreams in a popular city-fringe location, bang on the doorstep of beautiful Linear Park and St Peters College. Cycle to work along the river, play with the pooch on the billabong oval and stroll to Melbourne Street cafes and restaurants via the Parklands. So much to see and do!

The large and spacious turn of the century home is an intriguing louvre roof double fronted Cottage, offering the equivalent of eight main rooms: six generously proportioned original spaces plus seventies additions at the rear. These overlook a level and vacant backyard with plenty of space for a pool, plus drive-in access from a laneway, one of the home’s three street frontages.

Character lovers will appreciate all the high decorative ceilings and Baltic Pine floors that should come up a treat with a sand and polish.

The first four rooms, which are more Victorian in character, would give you four really good-sized double bedrooms, with potential to create a master ensuite from an adjoining smaller room. This next section of the house has more of a bungalow vibe with a transverse hallway leading past the original linen cupboard to the bathroom.

Generous lounge and dining spaces are next, separated by sliding glass doors and featuring triple windows with leadlight motif and a gas fire in a distinctly Victorian surround.

Open-plan family spaces at the rear offer a large painted fifties kitchen and currently you need to pop outside to answer the call of nature and to do the weekly wash!

Of course, you could bowl the whole thing over and start afresh but this is a very solid home that, with a little creative vision, could deliver something extra special that would be uniquely yours.

But don’t take our word for it, see it for yourself this weekend!

Land size 15.24m x 60.96m (929m approx).