Owner transferred from Northam needs a quick sale and instructs Agent to slash $20 000 from the original price of $328 000. Says, "Find me a buyer, I’ll look at offers."

It’s hard to find a nice character home on a larger than normal block in the middle of town. This central Chidlow Street property sits on a big 30m x 60m, 1 826m2 lot and is a gentle 450m stroll down Gordon Street to the Post Office and retail shopping centre.

The 1930s weatherboard/fibro dado and tile home oozes charm and character. A wide entry hall returns to a once wide passage now filled with floor to ceiling built-in storage cupboards. Large lounge and dining rooms feature brick open fire places, high skirting boards, picture rails and ornate ceilings of the Art Deco era.

There are three bedrooms and the side verandah has been fully enclosed creating an air conditioned fourth sleeping unit or kids activity area. The third bedroom has been extended with skillion ceiling into the verandah space making an ideal teenager’s pad with room for study workstation or sound system.

A study nook off the kitchen allows parents busily preparing the evening meal to easily supervise kids browsing the net. There’s a gas stove and overhead canopy fan.

Set adjacent the rear, full width verandah is the laundry and, if you’re absolutely busting to go, the second toilet. A patio provides a covered walkway from the verandah to the carport.

The rear verandah is elevated and gets a view of attractive gardens, lawn and covered fish pond. Bitumen seals the driveway from the front crossover to the rear stand-alone workshop and carport.

Cooling of the house is through fully ducted evaporative air conditioning, room heating by a wood fired slow combustion unit set into the lounge fire place, hot water heating by a near new 80L electric unit, lawns and gardens a fully reticulated and security grills are on most windows.

The far back yard is a blank canvas waiting for someone to realise their dreams although the owner says the Shire will permit a horse stable and group dwelling development given the R15/30 zoning of the land.

Shire rates are only $1 034pa and water/sewer rates $859.