A landmark 22-room Oak Park mansion established by one among trendy Melbourne’s founding fathers is poised to smash the suburb report by hundreds of thousands.
John Pascoe Fawkner constructed Belle Vue Park on the suburb’s highest level and lived there between 1840 and 1855.
Claudio + Marwan Eview Group director Claudio Cuomo believed with its value information of $5.65m-$6.15m, 7 Oak Park Court docket would break the report for its postcode — and the neighbouring one, too.
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The five-bedroom home is classed by the Nationwide Belief as a traditionally important property and has jaw-dropping highlights together with marble flooring and fireplaces, gold leaf options and stained glass home windows.
Oak Park’s present $2.6m home value report was set by 128 Devereaux St final yr, CoreLogic information present.
That four-bedroom property holds the report for Oak Park, Glenroy and Hadfield’s 3046 postcode, whereas 3044’s $3.3m report was set by 1A Virginia St, Pascoe Vale in 2006.
However Mr Cuomou reckoned Belle Vue Park would high all of them.
In 1835, Fawkner, a businessman and politician after whom the suburbs Fawkner and Pascoe Vale have been named, financed a celebration which sailed from Tasmania and organised a settlement close to the Yarra River which later grew to become Melbourne.
After he died in 1869, an English household bought Belle Vue Park and constructed a double-storey Victorian mansion related to the unique house.
Mr Cuomo described the property as “one of the distinctive within the space” with its grand hallway entrance, chandeliers, billiard room and manicured gardens set on 3544sq m.
“It has hovering 16 ft (4.87m) ceilings and a grand environment,” he stated.
“The traditional U-shaped driveway is like one thing out of a Hollywood film, it’s harking back to Toorak or a Kooyong-type property.”
Barbara and John Liberman bought Belle Vue Park in 1992 as their household house.
They spent years restoring the abode, together with rewiring, replastering and including a swim spa room and bullnose veranda.
“It wasn’t actually that grand once we noticed it, it wanted a number of work finished,” Ms Liberman stated.
“It was actually dangerous, the floorboards have been stunning.”
Ms Liberman stated sitting outdoors on the veranda “feels such as you’re residing within the nation, it’s very tranquil”.
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