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Key selling points
- * 8 bedroomed Australian coastal home set on a beautiful lake
- * large living and entertainment areas looking out to tranquil lake
- * inground outdoor large solar heated swimming pool
- * beaches are a lovely 8 minute walk away and life guards present during summer
- * well known golf courses, yachting, sailing, horse riding and other activies close by
- * approval for B&B status has been given
The Home:
A modern, spacious eight bedroom home, completely renovated and extended at the end of the 1990s: The home looks north (winter sunshine) across Mummuga Lake to eucalypt clad hills of protected State Forest (never to be built on). The fully carpeted upper floor holds the master bedroom with an en suite that includes a spa bath with a sauna and massage shower; and three other bedrooms, all with mirrored full wall wardrobes and queen sized beds, all opening off a 40 ft by 12 ft living room/library. The red cedar staircase and upper banister date from the late 1800s (old, in Australian terms). The ground floor holds another four bedrooms, one with an en suite. The main living areas include a very large lounge and dining area with a separate breakfast dining room and a fully equipped gourmet kitchen. The main bathroom has a dual hand-basin vanity and a full sized bath as well as a separate shower. There is also a separate recreation/television room, currently housing a full sized heritage billiard table. From both the recreation room and the main living rooms, all of which are floored with high quality cork tiles, there is access to a large entertainment deck which looks north out over the in-ground, quarter Olympic sized tiled and solar heated swimming pool, and down over the lawns of a reserve to the lake’s edge. The four ground floor bedrooms are carpeted and of a similar large size to the upstairs ones. All have built-in, mirrored door wardrobes.
The ground floor and the upper floor are air conditioned with modern reverse cycle air conditioning, but the climate is so mild the air conditioning is by no means constantly in use.
The lower ground floor houses a large double garage with two remote controlled roller doors, a laundry, a large work shop area, two store rooms, a wine cellar and the fourth bathroom with toilet and shower. (The two large store rooms have been used as temporary dormitories housing, in one, eight granddaughters and in the other, six grandsons, all in double bunks).There is a very large tiled barbecue/entertainment area also overlooking the swimming pool. There are two staircases between the ground floor and the lower ground floor: - one from the ground floor deck and the other from the recreation room via the rear of the garage.
We have used the home purely as a private residence, but it would be ideal for use as a bed and breakfast facility because Dalmeny is part of an area popular with tourists and travelers. Its use as a B & B is approved by the local Eurobodalla Shire Council.
Dalmeny, South Coast, New South Wales:
Dalmeny is a small seaside/lakeside residential town about ten km north of Narooma, a popular fishing and golfing resort on the south coast of NSW. Dalmeny has a bowling club within easy walking distance of the home and a camping ground overlooking the ocean and the lake’s entrance, some two km from the residence. Narooma also has a bowling club and its golf course is one of the most picturesque in Australia, with the famous Hogan’s’ hole (the third) where one hits across to the par three green at the other side of a deep ocean chasm. The climate is one of the best in Australia, with mild winters and summers that are not unbearably hot or humid. The residence is only minutes from the unspoiled and uncrowded surf beach, which is patrolled in summer by lifesavers. Dalmeny is about 2 ˝ hours from Canberra via the Princes Highway and the King’s Highway, both of which have only sparse traffic in comparison to British or continental roads. It is about three hours from the high country snowfields around Kosciusko – (skiing and snow boarding in winter; bushwalking and trout fishing in season); and about five hours by car from Sydney. Alternatively, there are daily one-hour flights to Sydney from Moruya, which is thirty minutes north of Dalmeny by quite uncluttered road.
There are two delightful heritage/tourist villages a few km north and south of Dalmeny – Tilba Tilba in the south and Mogo in the north. There are also great boating and sailing areas within an hour or so of driving – Bateman’s Bay in the north and Eden, the fishing and whale watching port on Twofold Bay, to the south. Off-shore fishing is one of the main tourist and resident attractions, with fishing around Montague Island, with its seal and penguin colonies, available from Narooma and reef fishing from Bermagui, just south of Narooma, or from Eden. Montague Island is a nature reserve and can be visited on a conducted tour with a National Park and Wildlife Service Officer. Along this stretch of coast the mountains of the Great Dividing Range and the southern highlands are always within sight and provide numerous opportunities for what we in Australia call “bush walking”.
The owners, now in their seventies, are selling not to leave the district that they love but to move to a smaller residence at Bodalla, only a few km north of Dalmeny.
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