Historic villa in premium location

TENDERS CLOSE on December 5 for a largely original Mount Victoria villa with garaging that’s for sale for the first time in more than 30 years.

The three-bedroom house, at 97 Elizabeth St, was built in the 1880s and has been in the same family since 1985.

It has a weatherboard exterior with an iron roof and is set back from the street, on a 354-square metre section with a front gate and covered access from the garage (there are two other garages but they are on 199-year leases to other houses in the street).

A path and steps ascend past an attractively planted frontage with mature trees and shrubs, including a kowhai, to a veranda with original fretwork.

The front door of the 100sqm single-bay villa opens into an interior that’s been partly doubleglazed and insulated in the walls.

It combines a separate lounge with an eat-in kitchen that opens to a rear courtyard with a garden shed and toilet.

The lounge has both a gas heater, with a period fireplace surround, and a heat pump while

the kitchen includes skylights and an electric range with a ceramic cooktop.

The main bedroom has a bay window and two separate wardrobes with storage above; another bedroom also has a built-in wardrobe with extra storage.

The bathroom offers wheelchair-friendly access and has a shower, vanity and toilet.

‘‘This treasured family home is a relatively affordable chance to buy into sought-after city-end Mount Victoria,’’ Adam Cockburn, of Lowe & Co Realty, says.

‘‘It’s largely original and is ready for a new owner to move in and enjoy.

‘‘But it also offers extraordinary scope to renovate or even extend to capitalise on a premium location where off-street parking is as scarce as opportunities like this.’’

The property has a rateable value of $1.18 million and a tender guide above $1.095 million.