89-91 Wright Street

Elphinstone VIC 3448

Fifteen minutes from Castlemaine, with easy access to the Calder Freeway for Melbourne and Bendigo, this is an opportunity to secure a considered mud brick homestead together with the land to build a genuine horse or hobby farm set-up alongside it. Offered together as one listing on two separate titles, the properties combine to approximately 6.43 acres, elevated and private, with views drawn out across the land to Mount Alexander and Mount Macedon, stretching around 270 degrees across the surrounding countryside, the kind of outlook you want from the saddle, the vegetable patch, or the verandah.The home is built from mud brick, its slate and timber floors carrying that handmade, settled quality through every room. At the centre, an open kitchen adjoins dining and a dual sitting room, one space unfolding into the next. The kitchen has a gas cooktop with an undermount oven, terracotta wall tiles, and a timber benchtop suited to easy, casual dining. Double doors and a sliding door open onto the front verandah, and a north-facing window holds a quiet spot for a chair or a table, morning light and not much else. In the adjoining sitting room, a wood heater sits beneath a high, angled timber ceiling, exposed beams overhead and elevated windows drawing the northern light deep into the room.A separate living area carries the same warmth, a second wood heater set into a brick chimney, a split system for the cooler months, and windows that keep the paddock and the garden always in view.Three of the four bedrooms have built-in robes, one with its own external access for guests or farm mornings. The fourth is set on a mezzanine level, a flexible living space or bedroom, with windows framing the surrounding tree line. The central bathroom has a corner bath, a separate shower, vanity and separate toilet, with a second shower, vanity and separate toilet externally accessed for added convenience.Outside, a charcoal blue barn-style timber garage adjoins a home studio, with brick floors and plywood-lined walls and ceiling, a space equally suited to a workshop, a studio, or somewhere to put your feet up after a ride. A vine-covered verandah and a low-maintenance native garden wrap the house, while chook pens and water tanks round out a property built for a genuinely self-sufficient life. The home is connected to mains power, backed by a large solar system and battery storage.Tucked among the trees, a c1850 gypsy wagon offers something rather lovely in the way of extra sleeping space, whimsical, characterful, and entirely at home here.On its own separate title next door, a further approximately 4.46 acres brings a close-to-blank canvas for the horse lover or hobby farmer ready to build their own set-up. Four separate fenced paddocks, a large arena and a dam are all in place, along with a shed and water tank, the arena sitting among established gums, with tree lucerne planted along the paddock breaks for fodder.Beyond the paddocks, the land has been planted with care, well suited to anyone keen to grow their own. Olives, cherries, peaches, walnuts, feijoa, hazelnut, pear and quince are already established, some cropping well, alongside oaks, stone pine, bay leaf and manuka ready for a beehive. Two truffle-inoculated oaks and a stone pine are also in the ground, waiting on their first harvest.Elphinstone Primary School and the local pub are an easy walk away. Two titles, one offering: for the horse person, the maker, or anyone drawn to a slower, earthier way of living, this is a chance to secure the home and the land together, with the flexibility of separate titles for the future.