A Serious Tree-Changer’s Prize In A Millionaire’s Playground
A heritage homestead with manicured gardens, private lake and income-earning guest cottage, Pepper Tree Creek near Robertson offers a rare blend of rural grandeur and lifestyle appeal in the Southern Highlands.
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An ideal property for serious tree changers seeking a lucrative landing, Pepper Tree Creek estate just outside of Robertson in NSW ticks just about every box for house hunters in the millionaire’s playground of the Southern Highlands.
On more than 30ha of rolling green pastures, with a private lake and plenty of period charm, the expansive property features a converted dairy reinvented as a holiday cottage, fertile paddocks, and close to 2ha of fairytale manicured gardens.
On the market with a price guide of $14.5m to $15.5m, Pepper Tree Creek is listed with Michael Coombs and Sarah Burke of Atlas Southern Highlands. According to title records, the property last changed hands in 2019, before its latest upgrade, including a pool, when it sold for $6.7m.
Dating back to 1862, the original primary residence is a heritage stone cottage that has been sympathetically expanded and restored using stone quarried on site.
The vast floor plan has multiple entertaining zones, including formal areas such as a dining room with skylit cathedral ceilings and a piano room. These stately rooms flow through to the Wolgan Valley room – a closed in veranda with a pizza oven and French doors opening to spacious deck.
There are also everyday casual living areas from the contemporary country kitchen. The culinary space is home to a central island bench, a farmhouse sink, a grand gas cooker, a combined scullery and laundry.
An additional mud room connects the main floor plan to the four-car garage via a large breezeway, offering plenty of hidden storage for gum boots and dog toys.
Up on the first floor, the main retreat houses a separate bedroom with a fireplace, a luxury bath ensuite, a walk-in wardrobe, a sitting area with a study and another fireplace.
Back on the main level, there are three more bedrooms, a whole family bathroom, and a reading room with yet another fireplace.
For entertaining in the great outdoors, surrounded by a picturesque backdrop, there is a spacious covered terrace with a barbecue area, a fire pit, a vine-covered veranda, a mosaic pool, plus a poolside cabana.
Guest accommodation at the Old Dairy consists of a self-contained one-bedroom cottage with a full kitchen, bathroom and full-width veranda.
While the historic homestead and cottage paint a pretty picture, the impressive landscaping sets the estate apart from its neighbours.
Beyond the meticulously sculptured gardens, complete with topiary hedges, terraced sandstone vegetable gardens and a traditional greenhouse, there are 4ha of landscaped parklands. The grounds feature a remnant rainforest, local artists’ sculptures, a 1.2ha spring-fed lake with its own island and wooden bridge, as well as an elaborate chicken hutch affectionately known as Cluckingham Palace.
Although Pepper Tree Creek is connected to town water, the estate’s gardens are irrigated via timer systems tapping into the local spring water. All the paddocks have gravity-fed and spring-fed troughs for sustainable and efficient water management.
Other sustainability elements include substantial solar power infrastructure, offering the possibility for off-grid living.
Pepper Tree Creek is listed via private treaty with a price guide of $14.5 million to $15.5 million through Atlas Southern Highlands agents Michael Coombs and Sarah Burke.
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A Denver condo that hit the market earlier this week for $16 million is now the Mile High City’s most expensive listing.
The new listing by far beats the next-priciest home for sale, a condo in a new development that was put on the market at the beginning of the year for about $9.79 million.
The city’s most expensive single-family home is asking just shy of $9 million—the metro area’s priciest single-family homes tend to be in the Cherry Hills Village suburb.
At 7,145 square feet, the newly listed unit is nearly double the size of the one in the new development and more on par with the size of some of Denver’s most expensive single-family homes.
It’s on the top floor of a seven-story mixed-use building that was built in 2008 in the Cherry Creek neighbourhood, one of the most affluent areas of the city.
The last time the three-bedroom apartment sold was before it was even completed, though it’s been owned under a few different LLCs and trusts.
The seller, who Mansion Global wasn’t able to identify, bought the condo from the developer in September 2007 for $4.047 million, records show.
The design of the interiors is European-inspired, with decorative columns, elaborate millwork and ornate built-ins.
Plus, there’s a mahogany-clad study, a formal dining room that seats up to 30 guests and views of mountains and Denver Country Club’s golf course.
A private terrace adds 1,230 square feet of outdoor living space and features a fireplace and a built-in barbecue, according to the listing with Josh Behr of LIV Sotheby’s International Realty.
A representative for Behr didn’t respond to a request for comment.
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