If you’re looking for a property to renovate and reap the rewards, then look no further!

LOCATED just off Eaglehawk Road, Ashley Street is a surprise for those not in the know; in a quiet little pocket only minutes from Bendigo, it curves around past the hockey fields, part of the Garden Gully Recreation Reserve, eventually rejoining the main road via Hayes Street. Busses go along the main road, and a popular fruit shop, a newly opened Scottish butcher shop, and a large medical clinic are an easy walk.

Shaded by casuarina trees at the front, and with a magnificent palm tree in the garden, this gabled, weatherboard, iron roof home offers the potential for an exciting renovation. Some work, such as replastering and repainting, has already been done in places. Original features, such as high ceilings, tall windows and polished pine floorboards, are intact.

Stairs lead to a large decked verandah from which you could sit and enjoy the surrounding neighbourhood. French doors with security doors in front open from the deck to a big living room. A hallway off here leads to three bedrooms – one has dado walls, two have ceiling roses. At the end of the hallway a door that may have been the front door originally, opens to a verandah and the garden, via stairs.

On the other side of the living room and two steps down is a kitchen and meals area where another set of french doors open to a brick-paved patio. The kitchen has a 750mm upright gas stove and three-door pantry. This area could be further enhanced. Another hallway leads to a three-piece bathroom, a laundry and separate toilet.

Double gates on the street open to the yard and there’s a single carport with a lock-up door.