The Cherry Gardens home at 454 Cherry Gardens Rd has hit the market. Picture: supplied.
A Cherry Gardens home is giving horse-lovers and keen gardeners the opportunity to live an enviable hills lifestyle on an established 18.81ha allotment.
The acreage estate at 454 Cherry Gardens Rd has hit the market without a price guide.
Madelyn and John Duckmanton bought the property 25 years ago, attracted by the opportunity to keep their agisted horses on their own land, and sink their teeth into a grand renovation of a 1930s home.
The vendors have owned the property for the past 25 years. Picture: supplied.
They’ve modernised the property over the years. Picture: supplied.
It’s modern but also warm and has character charm. Picture: supplied.
“It wasn’t what we were looking for, but everything just spoke to us,” Mrs Duckman says.
“It was in a really raw condition and we’ve spent 25 years renovating it – it’s been rewired, replumbed and reconfigured and it’s incredible now, as are the gardens.
“We’re having my brother’s wedding here soon and we’ve had my daughter’s wedding here, my nephew’s engagement and two nephews’ weddings here.
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“It’s been wonderful.”
The home has five bedrooms – or four and a studio – four bathrooms, an open-plan kitchen, family and meals area, separate lounge, dining and sitting rooms, a decked outdoor entertainment area and a 13.5kw solar system.
The house is on a 18.81ha block. Picture: supplied.
It has five bedrooms and four bathrooms. Picture: supplied.
Best offers for the home close on April 16. Picture: supplied.
Outside you’ll find an olive grove, established gardens, 22 fenced paddocks, an arena, tack rooms and numerous storage sheds.
Now selling to focus her attention on her charity raising money for ovarian cancer research, Mrs Duckmanton said it was time for someone else to enjoy the property like they have.
“We’ll really miss it, but it’s time,” she said.
The home is being sold via a best offers campaign, which closes at 10am on Tuesday, April 16.
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