22 Peake Terrace

Parrakie SA 5301

Planning retirement or looking for a quiet place to live while you write your first novel?
Easy low-cost living in charming renovated schoolhouse (1 bedroom + bedsit) surrounded on three sides by bush with orchids, kangaroos and echidnas. The block is a well fenced 3 acres (12 building allotments) nicely planted with trees and native plants. Walking distance to post office and community hall, church, tennis courts and cricket pitch serving 50 local families. >400 metres to Mallee Highway. 25km east to Lameroo where you will find supermarkets, banks, hospital and day centre, cinema, pub, motel, petrol, golf course, football ground, public library and high school), 10km west to Geranium (swimming pool and primary school) and 76km west to Tailem Bend. Daily bus service to Murray Bridge and Adelaide (176km).> The brick and stone former schoolhouse has a big open fireplace (plenty of firewood on block), 24ftx24ft open plan combined family room and kitchen (high ceiling and plenty of light). Extension has modern bathroom and toilet, bedroom and another walk through room that could be used as a guest bedroom or study with a big glass sliding door opening onto a verandah.> House has 12 solar panels earning 50c per KW for excess power going back into the grid. 40,000 litre water tank providing water to the house and to 12 taps spread across the property to make watering the vegies easy. Reticulated bore water is also available. Weekly garbage collection service. > The property has a carport, with a driveway circling the house and 2 entry gates (each 12 ft wide) as well as a large storage shed, a tool shed (concrete floor) and a secure metal chook house. The land is gently sloping with the house on a high point.REDUCED TO $118,000