Quite Simply an Architectural Masterpiece

This unique 8.2007 hectare property, in its glorious setting, comprises a spectacular award winning home with clean contemporary lines, generous indoor and outdoor entertaining areas and a wing designed to accommodate family and guests.

Surrounded by pasture, park-like lawns studded with magnificent trees, lush gardens and an ornamental pear orchard, there are extensive timber decks with a wisteria-framed pergola and canopy. Courtyards include a charming walled courtyard with gardens and a three level water feature. A kitchen courtyard extends towards a separate 300 square metre courtyard, outside the living area and a 16 x 6 metre, in-ground concrete swimming pool with an automated fitted pool-cover. A breezeway leads past an under-cover carport to three pool changing rooms, with a rain shower, hand basin and toilet.

Designed to capture the light and views, Mountain Range House was architect-designed by Jeremy Smith of Irving Smith Jack Architects and completed in 2009. Exterior construction of the 400 square metre home combines solid concrete block exterior walls, with a soft grey-green, bag-plastered finish on concrete and steel foundations, iron-sand aluminium joinery and a thunder grey Coloursteel roof. It contains an extensive gallery, a huge open-plan living room, dining area, kitchen and breakfast bar, a gallery kitchen, a media room, powder room and laundry and well-designed office. Stairs lead up to a superbly-designed luxurious master suite.

The warm, well insulated home has double-glazed doors and windows and ducted heat pumps throughout. It is piped for radiant under-floor heating and wired for Broadband and Sky TV. There is a top quality Lutron home automation system and Speakercraft sound system. A built in Cyclovac internal vacuum system has five outlets and vac-pans in the laundry and kitchen. Lighting throughout includes a combination of feature lights and directional and recessed lights. The interior is painted Resene House White.

The 190 square metre West Wing has its own concealed entrance from the car park or can be accessed internally. Built in 1985 as the original home, exterior construction combines roughcast plastered walls with an adobe finish, aluminium joinery and a karaka Coloursteel roof. Extensions, architect designed by Min Hall and built in 1991, include a new lounge, office and four bedrooms. The interior is predominantly plaster board, with wooden tongue and groove sarking and exposed rafters in some rooms. Natural toned carpet is fitted in the living areas, office, hallway and bedrooms. There is a heat pump and a log fire in the family room and an open fire in the sunken lounge.