Grand Newtown home offers luxury living

The term dream home can be overused, but it’s a perfect fit for the exquisite property at 39 Laurel Bank Parade.

For those searching for the best in Newtown’s prestige market, this will be hard to beat.

A grand old home, in one of this suburb’s prettiest, leafy streets, it was given new life in 2015 thanks to the vision of the current owner and work of John Mitchell Architects.

The home has been listed for private sale, with price hopes from $4.4m to $4.6m.

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The ingenious renovation and extension seamlessly combined the old and new; and importantly, created a striking new heart to the home.

Built C1905, its period features remain showcased in the new iteration.

The wide, wraparound veranda, leadlight bay windows, soaring ceilings and six open fireplaces echo its history, but now there are modern fittings that guarantee pleasure and ease of living. There’s a glassed, custom-built wine storage cellar wall, three luxurious bathrooms with marble-topped vanities and frameless showers; a gas-heated, salt-chlorinated pool and three 2000-litre underdeck water tanks to service the landscaped gardens.

Agent Heidi Trempel who specialises in the prestige home market, says the Laurel Bank property meets all the requirements of the prestige buyer: a top street, grand rooms, soaring ceilings and an open-plan north-facing entertainment and living area.

“The big grand rooms are what people are looking for and when they walk in here and see the grand rooms, high ceilings and beautiful features, that’s the real draw.

“And then there is this …”

Ms Trempel gestures to a vast open-plan living-dining area and state-of-the-art kitchen that sit under cathedral ceilings and open on to a poolside entertaining area.

A north-facing extension has provided a truly spectacular example of today’s must-have, open-plan living.

“A lot of period homes when they are this big and grand, still have those individual rooms – the formal lounge over there, the dining kitchen over there, but that’s not what people really want,” Ms Trempel explains.

It’s easy to envisage hosting a large family gathering in this space, or a wonderful party. It’s made for entertaining. Bi-fold doors open to extend the living spaces to the undercover alfresco deck that looks across the heated pool and beautiful gardens.

The wow factor continues with the kitchen. A bank of stylish glass and steel grey cabinets run the width of this area and face a line-up of top appliances: an integrated Liebherr refrigerator/freezer, six-burner Falcon gas cooktop and dual ovens.

The redesign of this historic property has maximised family and guest accommodation. In addition to five bedrooms, the spacious attic area is now a welcoming retreat. It would be a great getaway space for teenagers.

It has also set-up the home for year-round comfort. Along with the six open fireplaces, there is hydronic heated and zoned ducted heating and cooling.

Ms Trempel is confident there will be local and Melbourne-buyers looking to secure this grand property.

“It’s ticks all the boxes on the plan, but the spectacular features of it, make it very different from the regular period home,” she says. “It’s special.

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