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My health condition is forcing me to sell my home. I do this with great sadness. Being a perfectionist it took me just on ten years to build this beautiful mudbrick house. It was the culmination of a lifelong dream.

The home is situated on 10 acres (2.5 ha) of bushland in a small valley. From the house one looks out over a rising meadow with grazing sheep, very romantic. The house is 20 squares (about 200 sq mtrs). Layout consists of: lounge, dining, study, kitchen, bathroom, toilet with basin in hallway and four bedrooms. The external walls are 280 mm thick and the internal walls 150 mm, all mudbrick. Post and beam construction is used throughout, thus the mudbrick walls are fill-in. The internal walls are painted off-white. Two metre wide verandahs surround the house.

Only first grade materials are used for timbers, tiles, hardware etc. Floors are timber, cathedral ceilings timber lined, fully tiled bathroom, toilet and kitchen. All window and door fixtures of brass.The lounge, study and dining are large (6.5x4m, 4x4m and 4x4m) and separated by low walls, giving it a feeling of freedom. The large kitchen (5.5m long) has a breakfast nook with cool storage under the benches. All internal walls have a strip of 500mm glass at the top, letting much light into all rooms. Doors in lounge room and front door have lead glass inserts.

The house is heated by a large Jotul wood heater. The kitchen has a Waterford wood stove,a gas stove. and gas fridge. Hot water is gas and solar. The house has its own solar and wind power supply which has shown to be ample for a family. (However grid power is available 200 m up the road) New 24 batteries were installed in April this year. The system has a sinewave 24 to 240V inverter plus a spare square wave inverter. There is a Honda back-up generator and a Briggs&Stratton generator for the pump on the dam.

About two acres are garden which includes a large vegetable garden, small orchard, large lawns and a chicken run with cute mudbrick night house. Pop-up sprinklers and drip lines are supplied by water from a 2 megalitre dam. There is a two car garage with workshop. Next to it is a large wood shed. About four acres around the house is fenced of with another two acres further on the block which can be used to keep horses etc.

The property is on a good quality part gravel road 7km from the town of Beaufort, Victoria. The town has all the usual facilities. It is 35 minutes drive from Ballarat.These small acreages will be harder to get in future as local shires have put restrictions on the size of subdivisions

There is so much this house has to offer and I really would like it to go to someone who will appreciate all the planning and care that has gone into the design and construction of it. The price can nowhere near reflect the labour that has gone into building this. The house is warm in winter and cool in summer and has a friendly and cosy atmosphere. Although close to a town, the environment is quiet with much wild life. If you love nature or are a gardener or an environmentalist then you will fall in love with this place.

For more information, please contact me at bryandepree@bigpond.com or phone me at 03 5349 3040 or cell phone 04 2715 1222 .

Colours in some pictures are a bit 'washed-out' because of flash light.

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