Ourmundi, the tropical minimalist Noosa hinterland listing

Ourmundi, the tropical minimalist Noosa hinterland listing
Nicola TrotmanDecember 8, 2020

Horse breeder Tania Carmichael has listed Ourmundi, set on 20 hectares in the Noosa hinterland.

The six-bedroom home was designed by Stephen Kidd for the original owners, Wolfgang Groh and wife Nicola Smith, who founded Nice Cream in Sydney in 1993.

Groh and his wife bought the 20-hectare block of land in 2002 for $400,000.

In 2007, the house and property were sold to Queensland entrepreneur Dean Shannon for $2.4 million, $600,000 less than its then ambitious $3 million asking price.

Carmichael bought the property in April 2008 for $3,075,000.

Featured in the 2006 book Tropical Minimal, the house located at 37 Venning Road, Doonan, comes with expansive polished concrete floors, soaring ceilings and huge expanses of bi-fold glass doors. The modern kitchen is installed with marble benchtops and commercial appliances such as a teppanyaki plate, deep fryer and a large cold room.  After selling their Nice Cream business, the Grohs settled in Noosa and continued their interest in food, setting up Mrs Quick, which supplies sausage rolls to supermarkets.

The master bedroom has a private spa on the deck and a five-star ensuite.

Located on the property is a self-contained guest wing, a 20-metre pool, which is linked to the main home via a timber terrace, a barbecue and pizza oven as well as an outdoor fire pit. There is also a chicken shed and run and vegetable garden beds. It comes with spring fed dam stocked with 300 plants and 500 fish.

Since purchasing the property in 2008, Tania Carmichael has renovated the interiors and developed the equine facilities. The property comprises of four stables with tack rooms and feed shed and four horse paddocks, corrals and a Mary River sand area. She also had 4,500 cabinet timber trees planted.

Ourmundi has direct access into Verrierdale forest with dedicated riding trails to Yandina and beyond. The property is fully fenced and is only 10 minutes to schools and supermarkets, and less than 10 minutes to the Eumundi markets and 20 minutes to Hastings Street.

Ourmundi is listed for auction by Graham Smith at Richardson & Wrench Noosa on October 5 and is expected to sell for over $3 million. 

Nicola Trotman

With a penchant for the written word, Nicola has built a career doing just this – now Creative Director at thriving Melbourne-based PR agency, Greenpoint Media.

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