Top four heritage properties
There's something beautiful about a property with history behind it.
Here, we've compiled our top four heritage-listed properties we've covered recently in news stories for a range of reasons.
We ask - which of these do you like the most?
Our first is Bendigo's Fortuna Villa heritage trophy estate (pictured below). It finally sold in June, for $2.21 million, and it has some of the most gorgrous stained glass windows as you can see in the images.
It was remodelled in the late 1880s, when it became lavishly furnished with pieces collected from around the globe - both inside and out, with imported plants, spacious gardens and lakes.
It is built in a number of architectural styles, including Victorian Italianate.
The villa comes on 7.57 hectares and has 32 outbuildings.
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Our next is a Tudor Revival heritage-listed beauty in the Sutherland Shire of New South Wales. Cronulla's Coombe Grange (pictured below) was listed in December with $5.95 million hopes.
The 2,637-square-metre Taloombi Street estate almost commands beachfront prices, albeit with freehold pathway access to Gunnamatta Bay.
The house was designed by architect Spencer Spasfield for Reginald and Florence Snelling who'd operated a Glebe printing business.Completed in stages, it comes with a ballroom that was added in 1925.
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Heading down to Tasmania, this Hobart charmer (pictured below) was listed earlier in the year with $495,000 hopes.
On York Street, Bellerive, the 1,246-square-metre heritage listed Radnor house comprises of original heritage features throughout... even including a servant's bell!
With 12-foot high ceilings, period features and a comparatively lower price point, it's on our favourite list.
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Lastly, this beauty in Victoria, Annesley House (pictured below).
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Listed late last year with $1.29 million hopes in Portland, the 1878-built property is actually a hotel.
Consisting of seven furnished apartments that had been run as self-contained holiday accommodation, heritage documents say it is an example of 19th Century townhouse design in Italianate style.
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