23 Mackay Street, Essendon, Vic 3040

Sensationally placed between city-bound trains and North Essendon Village, this fully renovated period classic offers the finest in turn-key living on one of Essendon's most convenient, tightly held streets. Featuring manicured gardens, a picket fence, and tuckpointed brickwork, a picture-perfect facade and stance introduce an interior that's both elegant and practical, with a wide hallway wrapping around to reach magnificent main areas. Complemented by a central lounge providing welcomed separation, an open living/meals area steps into a yard primed for alfresco dining, with a retractable awning ensuring a broad deck remains usable across the year. A lavish kitchen is sure to excite the passionate cook, boasting stone surfaces, a 900mm gas-top cooker, stainless-steel dishwasher, and island with pull-out dining table. Versatile by design, two robe-lined lower bedrooms and a luxe bathroom with soaker tub accompany a sumptuous upper master. A full-size dressing room adjoins a stylish ensuite with on-trend black accents, twin basins, and a double shower, while a remarkable roof terrace proves sublime for social drinks taking in vivid sunsets. Benefiting from additional, rear frontage to Glen Street, two secure car spaces headline a range of extra highlights, joined by period details in fretwork, leadlight windows, and high, ornate ceilings along with split-system heating and cooling, extensive storage, substantial attic space, engineered timber floors, plantation shutters, a mains-gas barbecue, gas fire to living area, sizeable shed, European laundry, and keypad entry. A short stroll to Glenbervie Station for easy access to the city centre, it's just steps to Allison Park, scattered cafés, popular pubs, Windy Hill oval and Fitness Centre, Napier and Fletcher Street restaurants, and the buzz of North Essendon and Rose Street shopping villages, with respected public and private schools, Queens Park, the Maribyrnong River, and CityLink all close by.