The mansion at 160-162 The Avenue, Parkville is the sort of historic dwelling most individuals can solely dream about.
Set on a prestigious nook block spanning 1376 sq. metres, the Victorian Italianate residence was designed by vital architect Charles Webb — who was additionally behind Bourke Avenue Mall’s elegant Royal Arcade, the Mandeville Corridor and the Windsor Lodge on Spring Avenue.
Constructed within the late Eighteen Eighties, Cumnock has been impeccably maintained over the past century and it’s now awaiting a brand new custodian.
‘I’ve offered houses for 36 years within the internal metropolis and this could be probably the greatest examples of a basic Italianate fashion dwelling I’ve ever seen,’ Nelson Alexander Carlton North director Nicholas West says.
‘As quickly as you stroll as much as the home and see the landscaped gardens, you recognize you’ve arrived at someplace particular.’
The stately facade opens to a pressed-metal lobby adorned with hovering ceilings, polished floorboards, towering archways and complex stained-glass home windows.
On the bottom flooring, you’ll discover a formal lounge with bay home windows overlooking the luxurious grounds, a house workplace with a separate library, alongside a contemporary kitchen and meals space. French doorways open to the outside terrace, primed for entertaining under the leafy tree cover.
Whereas a grand unique timber staircase results in the higher degree, a spiral glass staircase has been added for additional performance — simply one of many updates that’s helped to ‘tastefully’ deliver the Victorian into the twenty first century.
Upstairs isn’t brief on luxurious both. There’s 4 palatial bedrooms, a lavish marble ensuite, and the big wraparound balcony, and in true mansion fashion, you possibly can climb as much as the turreted tower with panoramic park views!
‘[The home has] clearly gone by means of an evolution. It’s acquired an amazing mix of outdated and new, which you don’t at all times see in these older mansions,’ Nicholas provides. ‘It’s modern, however hasn’t misplaced any of the interval richness you’d anticipate from a house like this.’
However past the ornate structure, the personal home can also be utterly surrounded by parklands, positioned reverse Royal Park with Princes Park a brief stroll away, and handy entry to the CBD.
160-162 The Avenue, Parkville, VIC 3052 is listed on the market by expressions of curiosity closing on Tuesday Could 27 at 5.00pm with Nicholas West and Stephanie Hawke at Nelson Alexander Carlton North.
