34 Glenbourn Drive

Tawonga South VIC 3698

The main house is north facing and was built in 1994/1995 by local builder Rob Boland, utilising solar passive design to ensure year-round thermal comfort. The angle of the roof and extent of the eaves blockout direct sun in summer, yet allow plenty of sun in the winter to warm the brick flooring, which acts as a heat bank.
Air-conditioning is not needed as all windows through the home are all aligned to create beautiful cool breezes through cross ventilation.
The main living area of the home consists of open plan kitchen, living and dining spaces as well as three bedrooms, main bathroom, separate laundry and an extra toilet.
The country style kitchen features a Franco BelSe combustion oven for cooking and water heating. lt also heats hydronic panels located in the living areas, the three bedrooms and the gallery area. One benefit of this system is that you can cook, shower, and stay warm even during power blackouts. During summer, the water is heated with a solar panel.
A Ned Kelly wood heater provides both ambience and warmth in the winter months.

Gallery
This sunny, open space connects via french doors from the main living areas through to the second wing. lt can be used to extend the open-plan family/dining/kitchen space, or used separately as a beautiful sitting room or study.

The Master Wing
Through the gallery, more glass doors open into the master wing. This was originally built as a separate self-contained flat but is now used as the master suite for the main house. The main room is 4m x 6m. There is a dressing room/walk in robe and en-suite bathroom.
There is another Ned Kelly wood stove for heating.

The Library
This building was completed in 2008.
The ground floor includes a double garage, laundry and storeroom with potential to convert into another self contained unit.
Upstairs there is a vast library/office space approximately 7m x 7m, a utility filing room, and bathroom.
The library has mountain ash flooring and extensive blackwood bookshelves. Being a separate building with its own entry, this space would lend itself perfectly to a home office or studio with plenty of room for client meetings.There is an Apricus solar heating system on the roof to heat the water for this building and yet another Ned Kelly wood stove for heating and ceiling fans for summer cooling.

The GardenTwo outbuildings: a tin woodshed and an adorable potting shed.
A circular kitchen garden includes both flat and raised garden beds and is fully enclosed to keep away the birds. The nearby established orchard offers a range of fruit to supply you for eating, cooking and preserving.

There are extensive garden beds with indigenous plants and landscaped paths down to the creek flat area and Simmonds Creek frontage. These paths are edged with beautiful boulders and rocks.
The creek flat was originally a bare paddock but has been extensively planted with local indigenous species. There is also a dam/pond that stays full all year and services the water for the house/library fire sprinkling system.
The house is fully fire protected with a designed sprinkler system fed by underground pipes that take water pumped from the dam/pond on the creek flat. This pond is always kept full by local springs and by reticulating water to and from Simmonds Creek via an underground
pipe. An annual fee is paid to Goulburn Murray Water for this service.
Extensive beaching work was done on this property edge to prevent creek erosion during floods.

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