That’s just to set the scene in this singularly spectacular part of the world, but while the elemental display is thrilling, it’s not all rugged rocks and surging seas: places like this comprehensive lifestyle offering on Boneo Road let you retreat and reset in style.
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Big skies, beautiful water views, and the green of productive pasture set between the two blues – talk about expanding your horizons.
“It’s a property that has everything,” says agent Rob Curtain of Peninsula Sotheby’s. “It’s a stunning house, really beautifully presented and then you’ve got [about 20 hectares] set up for horses and cattle – you have that primary-producer status – and then, there’s the view.”
Set on the highest point of Boneo Road, the vistas out to the west are coastal corkers. Sea, sunsets, shipping lanes – these are serious showstoppers.
987 Boneo Road, Cape Schanck VIC 3939
The long private road through the pasture to the house passes between a large machinery shed/workshop area and twin garages before the return driveway wheels you around a pretty green copse to the sheltered entry.
There’s something about the rammed-earth home that is both appealingly robust and brawny as well as easily elegant. The material, its tone and tenor, finds its best application perhaps upon a stretch of sweeping green.
Inside, the ceiling angles up to soar across the central kitchen-living-dining area, with light catching the rammed-earth walls and setting them aglow.
A low stone hearth, fire and woodstore set into that shimmering lounge room wall forms a cosy focal point if the weather turns squally.
Most of the time, though, you’ll want to face west and look through the walls of sliding glass and out to the blue.
A divine, deep deck projects out into the spectacle, just the place to settle for a while and take in the maritime manoeuvres on the horizon.
“The wonderful thing about this view is that it’s ocean as well as Bay,” Curtain says. “You can see all the way from the You Yangs to the city. You can watch the ships turning at the south channel marker at McCrae to Portsea and out through the Heads. On a clear day, it’s just amazing.”
If you do manage to turn heel and head back inside the house, you’re rewarded with handsome interiors and constant connection with the briny through extensive glazing.
A wing branches out from the central communal section, and both zones are essentially self-contained; each has a living area and decks. The southerly end has an office, powder room and four bedrooms, three with en suites.
“It’s a flexible, dual living situation,” Curtain says. “These owners built the house for the next generation, so there has been space for their children and grandchildren. If one section isn’t in use, you can just close it off and live in the other.”
On the other side, beyond the lovely loft of the smooth stone kitchen, the north section is the sole preserve of the main-bedroom suite. Here there’s a fine retreat and a brilliant bedroom with a large walk-in wardrobe, a sharp en suite and more water aspects – this time you can add the sparkling pool to that sapphire scenery.
The smart flexibility extends to the expansive landholding, which caters to any number of agricultural pursuits, with thoughtful forward planning evident throughout.
The sustainability credentials are impressive, and include a large solar array and battery, plus nearly 200,000 litres of rainwater tank storage. The property also has a mains water connection, which Curtain notes is rare for this part of the Peninsula.
Gated and fully fenced to keep your beasts, broccoli or beaujolais grapes safe from kangaroos and other bounders, it offers pretty much everything you’d expect from a true lifestyle estate.
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