441 Sunny Creek Road

Trafalgar South VIC 3824

So do the owners, but sadly they are downsizing to something more manageable and to be closer to ageing parents.
Located in the lush Strezlecki Hills, we face North, overlooking the Latrobe Valley. We can see the highway from our deck, but at this height it s all about the silence, broken only by the whip crack call of the ever-present lyrebirds who call this area home.
The house is an absolute hidden gem, with one of the best views on the road in fact agents have continuously told us it is the property on Sunny Creek Road with the best views.
The garden is mature and looks after itself with the occasional prune and mowing.
There are several citrus trees: Lime, Lemon, Orange, Grapefruit - and from these we make luscious marmalades.
There are apples, nectarines and figs around the property, including three beautiful powlonia trees that have gorgeous flowers in the springtime.
The house is a small weatherboard relocated from the original township of Yallourn in the mid 70 s, fully insulated in roof and underfloor, staying cool in summer and toasty warm in winter.
A wood heater keeps the entire house toasty, but it also has a trusty reverse cycle unit.
A planning permit allows for a large fully roofed deck extension to be built, effectively doubling the size of the floor area of the dwelling.
The owners love watching the light change over the hills as the sun rises and sets, the glow is mesmerising and the family of kookaburras keep us alert to their activities dawn and dusk.
This isn t a big flash house, it s a small treasure waiting for the next person to come along and unlock its charms.
It s got a relatively recent kitchen upgrade, a professional gas cooktop, and gas instant on demand hot water supplies the whole house.
The terracotta roof has been recently cleaned, repaired and repointed. The guttering and water collection was updated at the same time.
There is 75,000 litres of rainwater water capacity in a number of tanks.
The driveway was professionally regraded in 2017 and has excellent drainage.
You ll see that this is an old home and you ll no doubt have lots of ideas for your own changes. Originally the owners had plans of updating the bathroom, and a number of other areas, when they did the extension of the deck, but eventually decided not to proceed.
You ll find yourself loving the way this property sits high above the misty valley below, bathed in sunshine while the mist hovers along the valley corridor. There is an enormous amount of sunshine here, and it s also in a unique pocket of trees that act as a massive windbreak when we get severe winds across the region.
Wombats and resident wallabies greet us most nights, and it s amazing to hear a scratching outside the bathroom window and see a lyrebird out in the garden.
One of the owners says:
I love this joint!
We bought it at first sight. The garden was overgrown, a bit, and untidy, a bit, but the cottage aspect of the front yard, and bits of the back were very charming.
And the view! Through the trees, to the valley below, and then on to the deep purple mass of Baw
Baw and Mt. St. Gwinear in the distance, always changing with the weather, always fascinating.
Up the back, and down the sides, the bush almost 3 acres of it is host to all the dream fauna. I ve seen lyrebirds, as well as all the birds you can imagine, and koalas just outside the bedroom window, and our Wallabies, and our wombats. So wonderful to be brushing your teeth, to see a lyrebird scuffling in the leaf litter down the hill.
The privacy has been fabulous, but we haven t felt isolated, because the shops in Traf are only 7
minutes by car.
The house is, and was, an ordinary workers cottage, salvaged from Yallourn, I was told, in the 70 s. It s got a kitchen we ve put new (three or four years ago) cabinets, including a big pantry cupboard,
and an industrial-sized gas hot plate, with Teppanyaki plate, and a Miele dishwasher, along with a
new sink.
We gave the roof a doing and installed new guttering, a couple of years ago, at about the same time we got the place insulated top and bottom.
Needs a repaint, though, and the bathroom needs some plastic surgery.
We put off doing that because we had grand plans to build a partially-enclosed balcony-verandah
thingy, that would have doubled the footprint of the house. We got held up at Council for a couple of years, and only got the planning permit last year, just after we had run out of puff with enthusiasm, and our health had gone downhill a bit.
Now the place is getting a bit too much for us, and we have decided to downsize. I m dreading the thought of not living here. I love it to go to someone who falls in love with it the same way I did
Phone enquiry code for this property:7787