Ormond’s greatest estate comes with uncompromising luxury, irreplaceable quality and an unparalleled entertainers’ lifestyle. The grand family estate of an international property developer and a...

Ormond’s greatest estate comes with uncompromising luxury, irreplaceable quality and an unparalleled entertainers’ lifestyle. The grand family estate of an international property developer and a professional interior designer, this breathtaking approx 1022sqm property provides five bedrooms, a home-office and 3.5 bathrooms across an imposing manor-style home and poolside guest house… set in formal gardens with a semi-circle drive, oversize through-access double auto-garage and resort-style pool.

Fully constructed from Daniel Robertson artisan bricks by luxury builders, Englehart Homes, this grand residence provides a unique lifestyle opportunity with expansive formal lounge-dining to welcome friends, vast casual and Vergola-sheltered al fresco zones to bring family together, a fully-appointed theatre-room for a Gold-Class experience, and a first-floor lounge to give kids their own space. Impressively accommodating with a balconied master-domain (comprising bedroom with retreat, walk-through robes and 5 Star spa-ensuite), the home offers well-zoned children’s bedrooms with triple robes, a business-at-home office…and more living in the guest-house – conceived as a fully self-contained one-bedroom unit for adult children, in-laws, guests or staff.

Starring a Shaker-style kitchen with elite Ilve appliances, the home is a showcase of hand-selected finishes with Emporite cabinetry and natural granite benchtops for the kitchen, Emprador marble for the ensuite, and Crema Marfil marble for tiles, powder-room and hearth. With warm Brushbox parquetry alongside the plushest premium carpets, and a contemporary chandelier from Armadale’s Custom Lighting for formal dining, the home is intricately detailed – most notably with a stylised Grecian Key motif echoed from the marble-inlaid entry, to the ensuite, to outdoors; around the pool and al fresco shower.

Combining luxury and functionality with well-chosen window-furnishings (including e-screen and block-out blinds, bespoke curtains, plantation shutters and climate-controlling roller-shutters), it’s all include here from walk-in and dual-duty laundry/butler’s pantries - to a laundry chute! Climate controlled over four zones by ducted reverse-cycle air-conditioning plus a gas-fireplace, the home features alarm and video intercom security, ducted vacuum, and surround-sound ceiling-speakers - inside, outside, upstairs and down.

Set in a formal landscape with an Italian-style colonnade of pencil pines culminating in a rare Illawarra flame-tree, there are lawns for kids to play, extensive random sandstone paving to entertain, and an amenity area with 6000L water-storage and kitchen-garden to harvest this winter. There’s even a palazzo-style water-garden centred on a gentle fountain to guide guests directly to the glass-tiled solar-heated pool and entertainers’ rear garden.

In a highpoint position with balcony views to the Dandenongs, even this location holds grand appeal for family life. A walk to Ormond station and one block to bus-routes to both campuses of Monash University, this once-in-a lifetime estate has the retail and rail strip almost around the corner, Chadstone’s world-class shopping within minutes, and McKinnon Primary School in Zone.