29 Baden Powell Drive, Healesville, Vic 3777

This spacious 5-bedroom family home is ideally positioned in a quiet country lane in Healesville, on a sizeable corner block, set down from the road, with two driveways, a large entertainer’s deck, swimming pool and rear garden. The house has beautiful slate floors, rustic structural red gum poles, exposed beams, floor to ceiling windows and a gently pitched ceiling. With the world famous Healesville Sanctuary and Hedgend Maze just around the corner, and primary schools in Badger Creek and Healesville nearby, it’s a 5-minute drive to all the town’s shops, cafes, bars and restaurants.

The main gravel driveway leads down to a parking area in front of a timber double garage, with banks of ferns and succulent foliage in a rockery, providing screening from the road. A veranda runs the full width of the house from which the main entrance opens into a large split-level family room, with floor to ceiling windows, an angled ceiling, AC, ceiling fan and timber lining, with an open balustrade and steps up into a dining area. To the left of the family room is the master bedroom accessed via bi-fold doors, with an ensuite with shower over bath and large WIR. To the right is a double bedroom/study/office with floor to ceiling windows.

The open plan dining area has a beautiful slate floor, a Norseman wood burning stove and large picture windows looking out to the large covered deck. Off the dining area is a bedroom with pitched roof and two sets of BIRs and the family bathroom with shower, WC, timber vanity and great storage. The kitchen overlooks the sunken lounge and has good storage, LG dishwasher, Bosch gas cooktop and Westinghouse electric oven, with feature walls of radial cut timber and a double sink with space saving hanging pot rack.

A set of red gum stairs lead down into the spacious lounge, on a beautiful slate floor with radial cut timber and corrugated tin walls, exposed beams and its own bar area, perfect for entertaining. A Convector wood burning stove, ducted heating and ceiling fans will keep the room temperate whatever the weather. A compact laundry is accessed from the lounge and to the rear of the house are two further double bedrooms affording views to the front and rear, with fitted robes and large windows.

Glass sliding doors open from the lounge onto an impressive large west facing covered deck, open to the sides, with inbuilt mains gas BBQ, which overlooks the lawn and garden with ferns and with timber steps leading down to a private lower deck boasting an in-ground 7 x 4.5m salt chlorinated pool and shade sail over the sunbathing/seating area. From the main deck, a gate leads out to the garage/workshop and accesses the lower rear garden with timber sleeper steps and banks of rockery with birds of paradise.

The double garage is on a concrete base with a roller door, pitched roof & benefits including plumbing, electricity and heating (from a wood heater) with a separate workshop area, plus lockable office.

The rear driveway leads to a level parking area, ideal for large vehicles, and a gate into the back garden. A characterful timber outdoor bar with beautiful red gum bar top sits to the side of the house, with a fire pit nearby, ideal for enjoying alfresco drinks year round. Under house storage, a 16,000L water tank set up for irrigating the garden, and Sun Pro solar assisted gas hot water completes the offering.

This large family home is in a peaceful pocket of Healesville with abundant birdlife.