73 Grange Rd, Colonel Light Gardens is a 3 bedroom, 1 bathroom House with 2 parking spaces and was built in 1926. The property has a land size of 692m2 and floor size of 238m2. While the property is not currently for sale or for rent, it was last sold in October 2013.
Charming Family Home in this Historic Garden Suburb
What a wonderful opportunity to buy a charming 1920's bungalow comprising some 8 main rooms, in a beautiful garden setting on approximately 702m2 allotment with a pool.
Steeped in history, this highly sought after area of Colonel Light Gardens offers a perfect family lifestyle within walking distance of parks, playgrounds, sporting clubs, schools and a new funky caf, The Stranded Store, which adds to the community feel of the area.
The suburb of Colonel Light Gardens is significant for the following reasons:
- It exemplifies the theories of town planning of the early 20th century based
on the Garden City concept, and is considered the most complete and
representative example of a Garden Suburb in Australia, combining both town
planning, aesthetic and social elements into a coherent plan. The public and
private spaces of the suburb meld to create a distinctive three-dimensional
suburban design.
- It represents the best work of Charles C Reade, who was the first appointed
Town Planner in Australia and South Australian Government Planner from
1916-1920. Reade was the leading exponent of the Garden City Movement to
practice in Australia.
- It is the repository of the majority of houses built under the mass housing
programme of the Labor Government of 1920s known as the Thousand
Homes Scheme and became the area identified with the Scheme. International
visitors were taken to view the housing developments at Colonel Light
Gardens during the 1920s.
- It contains a homogenous style of residential architecture representing the
particular workingman's house idiom of the mid-1920s, developed from the
Californian Bungalow design.
- It is the embodiment of other, more ephemeral social concepts of the
The size of Colonel Light Gardens is approximately 1.5 square kilometres. It has 10 parks covering nearly 8.4% of total area. The population of Colonel Light Gardens in 2011 was 3,311 people. By 2016 the population was 3,365 showing a population growth of 1.6% in the area during that time. The predominant age group in Colonel Light Gardens is 40-49 years. Households in Colonel Light Gardens are primarily couples with children and are likely to be repaying $1800 - $2399 per month on mortgage repayments. In general, people in Colonel Light Gardens work in a professional occupation. In 2011, 86% of the homes in Colonel Light Gardens were owner-occupied compared with 85.8% in 2016.
Colonel Light Gardens has 1,242 properties. Over the last 5 years, Houses in Colonel Light Gardens have seen a 86.98% increase in median value, while Units have seen a 37.55% increase. As at 31 October 2024:
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