Mt Vic icon in three flats
TENDERS CLOSE on November 1 for a versatile Mount Victoria icon that’s for sale for the first time in nearly 50 years.
The sunny three-flat property, at 72 Hawker St, was built as a family home in the early 1900s and last changed hands in 1970.
It’s on a 334-square metre section with a single garage and easy walk-up access, and faces northwest with panoramic city and harbour views.
The 220 square metre dwelling was converted to flats in the 1950s: a bedsit and a one-bedroom unit on the top level and a two-bedroom flat on the lower level.
‘‘This property could be retained as an investment or turned back into a fabulous family home,’’ says Antonella Aspell, of Ray White, who’s marketing it with Cynthia Finlayson.
‘‘Alternatively, you could live on one level and rent out the other.’’
The weatherboard-and-iron roof villa retains many of its original features, including painted kauri ceilings, sash windows, high stud, original doors, bay windows and stained glass.
The front door of the two-bedroom flat opens off a covered entrance porch with an archway and stained leadlights.
On one side of the wide central hall is the living/dining room and on the other side, two double-bedrooms.
Both the living room and main bedroom have stunning bay window views; the main bedroom also has a double-wardrobe and the living room a heat pump, and built-in shelving and cabinetry with a servery to the spacious eat-in kitchen.
The latter has an electric range while the bathroom combines a shower and toilet with provision for laundry facilities.
The one-bedroom flat and bedsit are accessed from the courtyard at the rear of the property.
The former has a kitchen, with an electric range and provision for laundry facilities, and a double-bedroom on one level and upstairs a living room, with a sunroom annex and spectacular views, and bathroom (shower-over-bath, vanity, toilet).
The bedsit has a similar outlook but with an open-plan living/dining area, a kitchen with an electric range and provision for laundry facilities, and a bathroom with a shower-over-bath, handbasin and toilet.
‘‘This is an amazing opportunity to buy an iconic home in dress-circle Mount Victoria with excellent sun, stunning views and proximity to the city and Oriental Bay,’’ Aspell says.
The property has a rateable value of $1.3 million. ADDRESS:72 Hawker St, Mount Victoria. AGENTS: Antonella Aspell, phone 027 445 3088 or Cynthia Finlayson, phone 021 612 606.
VIEWING: Tomorrow, 1pm-1.45pm.