5-7 Bronte Avenue, Burwood, Vic 3125

Set astride nearly 2000 square metres of mature rustic gardens, this solid, attractively refurbished, landmark Colonial family Homestead (circa 1886), provides privacy, space, prestige, and quiet, with a charming country-like ambience, and ample parking.

There are four substantial garden-view bedrooms - two with doors to front driveway – and three bathrooms, including a skylit ensuite.  Bronte Homestead features gracious formal living and dining rooms.  The ‘Big Room’, with its French doors, merges Bronte’s sunny, north-facing indoor-outdoor living spaces to the covered, return-veranda, huge, leafy, leisure garden, bordered by wine-quality Cabernet Franc and Muscat grape vines.  Additionally, the kitchen gardens feature seven thriving, elevated, vegetable beds, kiwifruit, pears, and varieties of citrus, stone-fruit, and apple.

Also offering an intimate, casual space to relax, and feed the family, is a brick-hewn breakfast room - with charming pot belly stove - and modern, skylit, cottage kitchen. 

Defined by an understated blend of original period elegance, Bronte’s features include: high ceilings; Baltic pine floors; ornate ceiling Roses; grand arch and fireplaces; bluestone window-sills and foundations; timber-posted bluestone veranda; and double-gabled slate roof.  Today’s Bronte also includes: a home office; entrance foyer; lockup, skylit, studio/single garage; hydronic heating; gas-log fireplace; split system cooling; roof-fed garden water tanks (18,000-litre); remote alarm and CCTV; and feed-in solar power.

Bronte is close to: Deakin University, and schools such as PLC and Mount Waverley Secondary College; Brickworks (world class) shopping centre; the Suburban Rail Link (SRL) railway station and professional hub; Gardiner’s Creek Nature Reserve; and trams and buses.  Bronte Homestead, a distinctive, generously-sized property, provides exciting potential for family lifestyle, work-from-home, and optional building extensions (STCA).