170 Long Gully Road, Healesville, VIC 3777

With more than 20 mostly cleared beautiful acres and a Grand Mudbrick home of, this property is perfect for making your country dream escape a reality. Winding your way up the driveway, privacy is paramount and yet clear fertile grasslands abound to both sides.

The home is nestled in the pastured valleys of the Healesville, Dixons Creek, Yarra Glen triangle, Long Gully Road boasts a mix of farmland and vineyards. A quintessential Yarra Valley landscape and a much sought after location, only a short drive into Healesville or a just over an hour to Melbourne CBD.

Crafted of Messmate poles harvested from nearby forests, Oregon Beams from Canada, Radiata Pine from New Zealand and mudbricks hand made onsite, the home is set over three levels. On the first level, is an expansive open living zone that offers flowing living zones that will suit modern living, all cloaked in a scale of living that is rarely offered. The soaring ceilings and an amazing feature fireplace that will draw you in with its own gravity on intimate cold winter nights or when entertaining on Autumnal evenings offer living on a grand scale. The 4th light filled bedroom is also here and enjoys an open Westerly outlook ensuring natural light filled afternoons. This work of love took 4 Years to complete; construction started in 1981 and completed in the mid 1980's, if a home with this much soul is ever truly finished.

The second level offers two spacious bedrooms and a separate living area that is the ideal place for when you are in the mood for cozy and cossetted. This is an ideal zone for the home office, study or just the place to catch a quiet movie. Upwards to the third level is the mezzanine master bedroom that sits high above the grand living spaces this home so proudly presents.

While some mudbrick homes have the reputation for being dark, this home defies this, with bright open spaces and lots of natural light, with big windows maximising the views beyond. Stepping outside and nothing less than the Yarra Valley is on show, with panoramic western views across the grasslands and vineyards in the western outlook offer a stunning pretext to a distant Melbourne backdrop.

Paddocks have been home over the years to ponies, horses , goats and cattle, while the gentle slopes ( and neighbours! ) may inspire a vineyard planting. The choice is yours. Towards the rear of the property the pasture give way to bushland as you pass by the dam; From here a trusted mount can take you on forever.

This wonderful property is a must to inspect. Private Inspections Only

Internal Features

? 4 Bedrooms

? Mezzanine Master Bedroom with Ensuite

? Soaring Ceilings and Mezzanine Level Supported by Oregon Beams Imported from Canada

? Merbau Kitchen Bench Tops Kitchen Shelves

? Messmate Timber Poles and Main Fireplace Mantlepiece

? Radiata Pine Flooring Imported from New Zealand

? Main Living Space Features Soaring Open Space

? Red Telephone Box (For When You Want To Be On Your Own)

? Grand Fire Place, Reverse Cycle Split System Heating and Cooling

? Second Living Space for Cosy Nights In

? Featuring Cast Iron Fire Place Hosting Bedrooms 3 and 4

? 120 Year Old Wagon Wheel Light Fittings

? Fixed Door Features from Napoleanic France and Warrandyte Church that Burnt to the Ground ? Circa Half a Century Ago amongst a Plethora of Curios Included