23 Norwood Avenue, Brighton, Vic 3186

This substantial period home offers superior family living in a tree-lined cul-de-sac and is just a block from the beach. Extended from a solid-brick base to offer four bedroom, three bathroom accommodation, this fine home has three living zones and a gracious ground floor master-suite. The land parcel is approx. 740sqm with a 20m frontage to Norwood Avenue.

The separate lounge and dining rooms are consistent with the period and the sunny north-facing family zone has an adjoining al fresco entertaining area beneath a partially covered vine-draped pergola. Upstairs there is an informal lounge great for the family or ideal as a spacious home office or theatre room.

European appliances include a Smeg oven and a part-induction cooktop, timber benchtop kitchen and elegant bathrooms including a marble-finished ensuite. This substantial home is centrally heated with air-conditioning upstairs and down and open-fireplaces for both ground-floor living zones. Set in delightful gardens with 10,000L water-storage, there's also a generous two-car through-access garage with loft-storage.

Just 400 metres from the bathing boxes, a four minutes walk to Brighton Beach station and four minutes' drive from Brighton's schools, shopping, restaurants and cafes, this is fine family living in a highly regarded and tightly held location.

lounge, dining, north-facing family area, 1st-flr lounge, Smeg kitchen, grnd-flr master-suite, triple garage with storage, 400m to the bay