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'AIRLIE’ http://www.vision.net.au/~globallearning/ah/ 163 GEORGE STREET LAUNCESTON I feel honoured to have been invited into this remarkable home. This unique 19th century Victorian Italianate style home which dates back to 1832 is older than ‘Port Arthur’. This is an original ‘one of a kind’ for Tasmania. Standing proudly on blue stone foundations this home is one story with 2 levels, brick rendered with two bay windows and a verandah across the middle section of the front. The main entry door and frame has lead lighting colours of warm tangerine and red, welcoming you into a hallway of soft whey coloured walls with high wooden skirtings and dado. This front section of the home has a library, telephone room, single guest room, master bedroom and bathroom all with 20ft ceilings. The library is a soft rose pink with original antique ceramic tiled open fireplace and ornamental ceiling roses with chandelier. At the front of the house the library has the wonderful bay window, a very light room with a magical calm ambience. The telephone room and single guest room are almost identical, same size with large sash windows opening onto the front verandah, both with antique fireplace and ceiling roses, coloured soft apricot. The master bedroom, also with bay window, antique ceramic tiled fireplace, and wooden built-ins, has been painted in a bright light buttercup. The lower hallway flows up 8 stairs to the upper hallway (being the next level). Off this hallway we have the formal dining and lounge rooms with an adjoining door and open fireplaces. The lounge room has colonial gabled ceilings with the original (toffee) malt chocolate swede wallpaper. The lounge also has a side door consisting of a 30’s style lead light. You just don’t want to leave this room, another warm calm feel. Opposite these rooms on the other side of the hallway are two double size bedrooms with floor to ceiling bay windows overlooking their private courtyard. Both rooms have open fireplaces and ensuites. One with a walk-in dressing room and spa. To the rear of the home is a slate floor kitchen and dining area. Very light and sunny (laundry off the kitchen internally) overlooking the back courtyard, stables and artist retreat. Gas cooking, dishwasher, wooden kitchen, plenty of cupboards and work space. The dining area has a double dresser. The stables – which are now used as residential, is the cutest homely retreat with open fireplace, bedroom with walk-in robe, french doors opening out from the bedroom onto a private courtyard, bathroom and kitchenette, open plan to the living area, fabulous lead light window and cathedral ceilings. Outside there is a corner spa in the courtyard. The back yard and garden is elevated. Walking up past an original stone wall and past the artists retreat one can see the spectacular views overlooking central Launceston, and it’s clock tower, the Cataract Gorge, and out to the Tamar River. One feels an ‘instant’ calm under the trees taking it all in. How rewarding for all those thoughts to come to the poet/writer/painter who has the universe at their finger tips. This retreat is the third building on the property and has it’s own verandah, surrounded by wild roses and lavender, not just a house, ‘Airlie’, is a living soul that will become an integral part of your life! * The main home has been re-roofed this year. * 99% of home re-wired and re-plumbed. * Internet cable. * 4 separate phone lines. * Building Size – 264sqm. * Land Size – 1552sqm. * Plaster walls. * Carpet over wooden floor boards. * Rooms have been let out to professional masseuse. * Engineer’s report and local trademans reports. * 6 bedrooms or 4 plus telephone room and library. * Heritage listed. Property OverviewCategory: HouseLand: 1552.00sqm (approx) Features: AlarmSystem, Ensuite, Open Fire Place, Outside Spa, Inground Spa Municipality: LauncestonClose to: Launceston: 0.01km Devonport: 73.09km Burnie: 113.57km
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