A perfect sea-change lifestyle with business potential (STA) – just 40 minutes south of Hobart closeby Woodbridge and the multi-award winning Peppermint Bay Restaurant.

Woodbyne (Circa 1900) is one of the earliest homes built in the D’Entrecasteaux Channel district. Set on 2.6 acres, this wonderfully welcoming character home overlooks the sparkling waters of Birchs Bay. The current owners have had an architect draw up a landscape plan (see plan in photos) for a manageable resort complex. The plan incorporates: guest cottages (3); a vineyard; a rhododendron garden walk along the creek belonging to the property; ponds stocked with trout; a cherry orchard; a rose garden and veggie patch. All this less than one hundred metres from the water edge with boat-launching access and excellent in-shore fishing – including salmon and scallops. Guests would never want to leave.

The park-like lawn area surrounding this attractive home incorporates giant flowering Robina trees which make a spectacular backdrop to the well established and much admired gardens containing a wide variety of roses, camellias and rhododendrons as well as an orchard planted with apples, peaches, plums, raspberries, olives and cherries. The gardens are watered from a dam on the creek. The farm paddock gently slopes north down to the creek – ideal for a vineyard.

The tastefully renovated open-plan living area is perfect for family/entertaining and features a walk-around double-sided fireplace built with handmade bricks. The fireplace mantelpiece is crafted from the bar salvaged from the original Woodbridge Hotel. Heating is by way of centrally controlled electric wall panels. The newly renovated kitchen features a solid two-metre Huon pine bench. French doors lead from the living area to an entertainment deck bordered by well-established camellias, rhododendrons, a white lilac tree and a magnolia tree. Other features include the original pressed metal ceilings and pressed metal walls in the central hallway. Polished floors feature throughout the living areas.

There are three outbuildings – the large 88 square metre “apple packing shed” workshop, storage and gym area, the 56 square metre “hay shed” used for garaging vehicles and a boat and the 36 square metre “dairy” set up as studio office with telephone/broadband internet and power also suitable to be renovated as a cottage.

This beautiful well-established property provides the ideal opportunity to live the good life in a “how green is my valley” setting with spectacular water views, catching fish, growing your own fruit and vegetables, even growing grapes and making your own wine, enjoying local produce at nearby restaurants – becoming one of the Birchs Bay locals.