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This Grand Kew farm combines Victorian architecture with modern and bold surprises, including a skating ramp in the basement, panoramic views of the horizon and painted plans of the Council for more.
A KEW mansion with a heritage facade and a hidden skating ramp has reached the market with a $ 10.5 million price guide of $ 11.5m.
The great Victorian house in 1-3 Sackville ST was designed at the end of 1800 by the outstanding architect John Beswicke, whose work helped to shape Melbourne’s early suburban character.
Beswicke was responsible for more than 300 buildings in Victoria, including the municipalities of Hawthorn, Brighton and Essendon, and numerous houses through Kew and Hawthorn Dering the Boom was from the 1880s.
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This property retains the key characteristics of that period: wide halls, roof roses, arched terraces and a striking stained glass window on the stairs.
But, Nelson Alexander Kew agent, Laurence Murphy, said he is the basement who tends to catch off the offstarch.
“They were the ones who have really touched the restoration and brought the property to their current state,” Murphy said.
“His goal was to honor the origins of the house as a great mansion of the Victorian era, while giving him a unique lifestyle advantage.
Before its restoration, the Kew mansion was a sleeping giant, with original bricks, wide halls and signs behind its Italian greatness.
A comprehensive restoration has revived the original elegance of the house, with adorned ceiling roses, cornices and epoch characteristics now proudly on display.
Murphy said the basement was not part of the original structure: it was added by the previous owners.
The lower level has a gym at home, workshop, warehouse and six -car garage next to it with an interior skating ramp.
The house comes with totally supported plans from the Peter Barton heritage architect to complete the restoration, including the addition of a tennis court and landscape gardens.
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The facade was still proud, but inside, plaster cracks and faded finishes hinted in decades without updates.
The upper staircase window, once opaque for time, now floods the hall with light, showing colorful birds and stained glass.
Nelson Alexander Kew agent, Laurence Murphy, said from the upper level that the house also enjoys uninterrupted views of the Melbourne horizon.
“From this particular pocket of Sackville Street, that view is really rare,” Murphy said.
“You are looking on the roofs and trees, it is likely that nothing is built in front of you.”
The house comes with a tennis court and landscape gardens.
While the current seller has not made any change since he bought the house in 2023 for $ 10.58 million, interest comes from local families and international buyers.
“Until now, they are mostly families: the premises, many of whom have admired the house or location for years,” Murphy said.
“We have also had an interest of buyers abroad, particularly those with experience in restoration and life in heritage houses.”
Under the floors of this Kew mansion is a full -size interior skating ramp added by the previous owner as a bold access in the basement.
From the terrace above, the house sacrifices rare panoramic views that extend from South Yarra to the Melbourne CBD horizon.
Mr. Murphy said that the large number of large rooms and the characteristics of the period beautifully preserved in the front of the house was what made the prestigious farm stand out.
“Obtaining a block of this size in sackville Ward is an exceptionally strange,” he said.
The house is being sold by Nelson Alexander along with Marshall White.
Parts of the original wooden floor of the house and the detailed plaster were still visible before the restoration was advanced.
The uninterrupted views in the trees and the city like this are almost unknown in the Sackville room, and it is unlikely to be built.
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