Two-storey Edwardian elegance

PERCHEDON the urban ridgeline running north from the city centre, this well-presented two-storey Edwardian home has delightful views across the city tomtwellington.

Built in 1910, it has established, easycare gardens and adjoins a well-kept park on the grounds of the old Scots Church Presbyterian cemetery.

The home has an attractive facade, with front window shutters and a solid front porchway behind a wooden fence with an automatic steel security gate to a paved driveway and a garage or workshop.

The entrance foyer has a leadlight window, a timber wainscot and polished floorboards.

The spacious living room has a coalgrate fireplace, a high ceiling with exposed beams and picture rails.

Adjoining is a small sunroom or breakfast room.

Next is a large dining room with floorboards extending into a modern galley-style timber kitchen with granite benchtops, a stove with a gas hob and electric oven, a stainless-steel splashback and exhaust flue and an integrated dishwasher.

Adoor leads to a rear sundeck, with steps down to a courtyard and garden with a line of weeping cherries along the back fence.

Also on the lower level is an upgraded bathroom with a toilet and laundry facilities and a walk-in closet or larder.

There is also a carpeted office/study with a file room and steps down to a side door to the grounds. Thismaywell have potential to be used as consulting rooms.

Acarpeted blackwood staircase leads up to another upgraded bathroom, built-in storage, another laundry and a spa bathroom with a skylight.

There are three bedrooms with builtin wardrobes. One bedroom has a small sunroom off, and another has doubleglazed windows, probably a relic from the days when the historic Trinity Church further along the street rang its handsome bells.