Quiraing, Lindfield

Quiraing, 25 Highfield Road, Lindfield NSW 2070

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• From a story by SOPHIE SHERRARD, North Shore Times September 13, 2017
• Related; Lindfield Federation Style

Restored Edwardian has it all: Federation nothing short of spectacular

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This splendid Federation residence retains the traditional elegance of its grand origins, accentuated with unrivalled luxury.

• Sale listing and photographs

Quiraing, 25 Highfield Road, Lindfield NSW 2070

• Built at the turn of last century, Quiraing is a magnificent example of a North Shore Federation home, sensitively reinvigorated for modern family living.
• Beyond the return veranda and leadlight front door, the arches of the hallway are light-filled.
  

  Quiraing, 25 Highfield Road, Lindfield NSW 2070

• Brimming with original features, the first four rooms include soaring, pressed metal ceilings and original fireplaces that have informed the meticulous additions to the home: resplendent updates and additions utilise outstanding quality throughout

• The classic central hall introduces stunning Brush-Box floors, soaring pressed metal ceilings, leadlight, corbel archway, magnificent fireplaces, and grand spaces.

The elegant formal dining room is exquisitely designed with double doors opening on to a water feature, and could host the most opulent of dinner parties.

• Formal lounge and banquet sized dining room for impressive entertaining and elegant occasions that showcase the finer things in life.
• Brilliant entertainer’s kitchen, marble bench tops, custom cabinetry, premium fittings, two Miele pyrolytic ovens, wide gas cooktop, two dishwashers, Qasair range hood, large breakfast bar, walk in pantry

• Spacious casual living and dining bathed in ambient light, a natural hub for family life with seamless indoor/outdoor flow to the terrace and pool
  
• The kitchen is palatial in scale and classic in style.
• Beautifully finished with marble, custom cabinetry and high-end fixtures. it has a walk-in pantry, double Miele ovens, large gas cook top, two dishwashers and a generous breakfast bar.

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• The adjoining casual dining and lounge rooms flow through large folding timber doors on to the stone-paved veranda that is bordered by a luxurious pool, long enough for lap swimming. This indoor-outdoor entertainment area is lavish-party-ready.

• Six large bedrooms, versatile layout offering a seventh bedroom if desired, each presenting its own unique style such as verandah or balcony access, master with walk in robe and richly appointed ensuite
• Three superbly renovated stylish bathrooms, marble features, floor heating, two full family bathrooms, large fitted internal laundry with outdoor access
• Outdoor entertaining and very private and spacious landscaped surrounds beautifully illuminated for evenings making it perfect for large parties
  
  

Severn Lodge, Alstonville

Severn Lodge, 184 Ballina Road, Alstonville NSW 2477

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• From a story by Alison Paterson Northern Star 19th Sep 2017
• Sale listing and photographs

Historic Alstonville home up for sale

One the most historically significant houses on the Northern Rivers

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EDWARDIAN CHARM

A gorgeous restored 1906 property full of natural light, period details and with a fascinating history is for sale in Alstonville.

• IT'S one the most historically significant houses on the Northern Rivers and when Sharon Dean walked inside, she felt such a connection she knew this would be her home.
  

  Severn Lodge, 184 Ballina Rd, Alstonville

• Built in 1906, Ms Dean said the charming Edwardian property, known as Severn Lodge in Alstonville, immediately felt very warm and welcoming.

She said the dwelling was once the farmhouse of a larger property and contains many fine period details.

• After lovingly restoring the home, Ms Dean believes the heritage property's next owners will love living there at least as much as she has.
• "I know someone will walk in here and feel a similar connection and be very happy here," she said.

Severn Lodge, 184 Ballina Rd, Alstonville

"The house is not only gorgeous inside and out, it also has a fascinating history."

• Ms Dean said she will also pass the written history of Severn Lodge, including original photos and artefacts discovered in the garden, as they may eventually be able to add to the collection.

A charming timber home inside and out, this Edwardian residence was built in 1906 for Muriel and Roy Williams, a mother and son well known to local history buffs.

• Lovingly restored, the property is only a short walk from all village amenities yet seems to be hidden away in its own secret garden on a magnificent 1,273-sqm allotment.
• Set far back from the road behind a heritage-style gate and manicured hedges, this cute haven of a home enjoys an ideal northerly aspect and has a real sense of serene intimacy.
• Featuring period details such as ornate timber fretwork, high ceilings, polished teak floors, Federation arches, French doors and picture rails, the cottage includes wide verandas, three light-filled bedrooms, a welcoming hallway, a formal lounge, an informal living/dining area and a well-equipped gourmet kitchen.

Severn Lodge, 184 Ballina Rd, Alstonville

"The home is close to everything but appears hidden away in its own secret garden," she said.

• "There are wide verandas overlooking the garden which has an ideal northerly aspect and has a real sense of serene intimacy."
• Inside, the house features beautiful period details including ornate timber fretwork, high ceilings, polished teak floors, Federation arches, French doors and picture rails.

There's plenty of room for everyone with three light-filled bedrooms, a family bathroom, formal lounge, an informal living-dining area and a well-appointed timber kitchen.

• The house features reverse-cycle air-conditioning and there are ceiling fans in every room, a new roof, and recently installed a solar hot water system.
• Outside are some established frangipani trees and a wonderful Christmas bush planted by the original owners more than a hundred years ago, and still generously providing bunches of flowers that you can bring inside to add atmosphere to the home throughout the festive season.
  

  Severn Lodge, 184 Ballina Rd, Alstonville

Art Nouveau Murnell

Murnell, a period-perfect Art Nouveau house

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• From a story by JENNY BROWN Domain SEP 19, 2017

Murnell, 190 George Street, East Melbourne VIC 3002

Agent Paul Caine, advertising the property as “combining period class and charmed modern style”, is anticipating something between $3 million and $4 million when Murnell goes under the hammer at 11.30am on Saturday 23/09/2017.

Murnell, 190 George Street, East Melbourne VIC 3002

'Murnell' - Modern Art Nouveau Villa C1909

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This four-bedroom 1909 home is quite exceptional, especially in Victoriana-rich East Melbourne, because its style is Art Nouveau.

'Murnell' - Modern Art Nouveau Villa C1909

• Carved into the wooden fretwork of the lofty rooms with their pressed-metal ceilings and stained glass windows are silhouetted images of kookaburras and waratahs.
• It’s rare, too, because since it was commissioned and built by Miss Elizabeth Clarke — a member of the richest family of turn-of-the-20th-century Victoria, and, incidentally, the dynasty who raised of some of the biggest private houses in Australia (think Rupertswood, Cliveden and Queen Bess Row) — Murnell has only had five owners.

Murnell, 190 George Street, East Melbourne VIC 3002

Gorgeous high ceilings, leadlight windows, ornate fireplaces, and original timber floors are just a few of the classic features that still exist through this generous double storey property.

• A long entry hall feeds off into an airy formal lounge which showcases built-in seating positioned directly in front of an elegant bay window, with this lounge further oozing into a large formal dining room. Both these rooms enjoy open fireplaces and an abundance of space and light.

Over the 20 years that the relinquishing owners have been custodians of “an elegant, spacious, light-filled house, we’ve hardly touched it apart from remodelling the conservatory and refreshing the paint”.

• “Most of our work has been in preserving what’s there,” she says.

Classic features still exist through this generous double storey property.

The historic Melbourne house that shouldn't really be there

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Murnell is also rare because, according to the original 1860s subdivision of the block bordered by George, Clarendon and Hotham streets, it shouldn’t even be there.

• The hilltop site, already sacred as a corroboree ground before being designated for the proposed Anglican Cathedral of Melbourne, was taken up instead by the smaller Holy Trinity Church when St Paul’s Cathedral was slated to be erected on the corner of Flinders and Swanston Streets in the city.
• When Holy Trinity burned down in 1905, leaving only four standing walls and the brick schoolhouse behind, the congregation opted to replace the church but to locate it closer to the corner of Hotham and Clarendon. That left the George Street frontages available for subdivision.

Miss Clarke — presumably using substantial monies promised or left to her by the wealthy and widowed chatelaine of Cliveden, Lady Janet Clarke— pounced on a two plots, buying both 190 and 190A George Street.

• She had architect, C.A. Cowper design her a finely crafted home, replete with the most modern and fashionable fittings and fixtures.
• She then promptly died and her new house “in the prominent and desirable location” was auctioned “at half past 2 o’clock” in July 1910. It realised £1395 and a 25 per cent on-the-spot deposit was required.

Murnell, 190 George Street, East Melbourne VIC 3002

The equally well-heeled Misses Roche bought the house and held it until 1953 when it was purchased by the Tramways branch of the Returned Soldiers Sailors and Airmens Imperial League (forerunner of the RSL), who locked up the top storey and used only the front two downstairs rooms as a library and meeting place.

• With another new owner in 1991, the side garden was subdivided off before a further sale to a local lady who put a conservatory on to capture north light and replace the lost outdoor amenity.
• In 1997 and in a fortuitous “one last bid” at an auction attended by 200 other people, the present owners purchased Murnell.
• They’d been stalking the suburb for a decade, looking for a place to live and from where he could walk across the park to his city office. In Murnell they found more than they were looking for.

Having since relocated to Sydney, the couple are reluctantly letting go of their beloved, storied home that she says “is indeed such a rare survivor”.








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