To enquire, please email or call 1300 815 051 and enter code 9582
Built in the 1860’s, Salisbury House – a double fronted Victorian, with surrounding verandahs on 3 sides of the home - still stands proud today.
The homestead holds significant presence, being one of the first homes to be built here, in the goldrush days.
The owner/builder of the lovely home also held presence in the community. A local councilor, a quartz miner, a family man and father to 11 children.
The homestead comprises:
4+ bedrooms
2 bathroom (1 operational, 1 not)
2 lounge room
large kitchen (not operational, but still in original condition, including a 1.8 metre brick stove surround, with built in bread proving oven).
A hawthorn hedge (Crataegus) fronts the property and is well over 100 years old. For a time, the property was also referred to as Hawthorn Villa. The hedge continued across several adjoining properties until they were sold off and removed to make way for ‘progress’. Making hawthorn jam and preserves from the hedge is indeed a privilege.
The ceilings are 10ft throughout, there are cedar ceilings in some rooms and in extremely good original condition for their age. The pull switches are a lovely feature of the home. There are maid’s bells facilities in the two front rooms. A by gone era certainly, but provides an insight into the lifestyle of the original family. The flooring throughout is hardwood. There is a maid’s room with it’s own external entrance; the original scullery complete with shelving for your pots & pans & preserves. It also has the original hand concreted small cellar in which to keep your home grown food fresh and cool.
The laundry still has the old copper, and its own fire place for your weekly washing.
There are 4 operating fire places throughout, with a 5th located in the original kitchen. The home keeps wonderfully cool in summer, so you’ll never need an air conditioner.
The room above the scullery is a loft, where you can take in wonderful southern views of the township and a row of historic pines.
She sat derelict for a good 17 years before I bought the home. The house was strewn knee deep in rubbish and the previous owner’s furniture. Over these years it had been used has a playhouse by the local kids, and squatters claimed it for a time too. One of the locals kept his sheep on the property to keep the grass down, while nobody was living in the house. The sheep then commandeered the home as it was warmer than sleeping outside in winter.
I saved this beauty from demolition, and breathed new life into her. I’m ready now to hand over the reigns to the new owner to who will bring her home to her original glory.
The rear part of the home is ready for your input. The home has been replumbed (well, plumbed as there was scant plumbing here originally) and re-wired. Most rooms have been plastered and painted, with only 2 rooms in the main section of the home to be completed.
Goldfields history meets permaculture – a large veggie garden, roses, fruit trees, water tanks, and two small sheds. One of these sheds is the original dairy shed where they milked their cow daily. There is a pot belly stove set up in the old dairy shed, so winter gardening is taken care of. Come in and warm your hands with a lovely cup of tea boiled on the pot belly stove, before heading out again into the garden. There are still signs of the lovely original garden, the circular beds of bulbs planted at the hands of the then full time gardener, Mr Sturdy. The garden beds are chemical free, with loads of home made compost regularly added. It’s very fertile, and the plants thrive.
This lovely homestead is located in Ballan, Victoria on a one quarter acre block. One street back from the main street means you are within walking distance to everything. Just two blocks to the V line train station, and a one hour’s commute to Southern Cross Station. The town has great access to Ballarat, Daylesford, Geelong and Melbourne, as well as Avalon Airport. The town has most facilities available here, but if not, the nearby regional cities will be able to accommodate.
For anybody who has walked through the front door of this home for the last 25 years has marvelled at its character. It’s very unassuming from the outside.
To enquire, please email or call 1300 815 051 and enter code 9582
