Located between the escarpment and the sea, a “time-warp” miner's cottage at Wombarra is being touted as an ideal artist's or writer's retreat.
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The property at 1 Clutha Place, Wombarra features three bedrooms and one bathroom, as well as an oversized kitchen and dining, formal living plus additional games room.
The coastal miner's cottage is located just minutes from beaches and the Illawarra Escarpment.
It is situated on a 1181sqm level parcel of land, and offers access from Dam Road as well as Clutha Place.
It presents the potential for spectacular ocean views from a second storey (subject to council approval).
The agent, Vanessa Denison-Pender, principal at One Agency Downie & Denison Pender said the property had been held within the same family for 60 years. The house was last sold in 1985.
“It’s quite large; even though it’s an old fibro miner’s cottage, it is quite spacious,” she said.
“A lot of the miner’s cottages you get are small, little two-bedrooms.
“This one has huge potential for renovators if you wanted to do that.
“It’s a bit of a time-warp… There’s some really interesting pieces of furniture in there.”
Mrs Denison-Pender said the “the block is amazing”.
“It’s rare to get a beautiful, big, flat block of land up there without any issues,” she said. “Along the escarpment you might get water causeways or sloping, steep blocks. This is perfectly flat, it’s like a park.
“It’s like having your own little private park.
“It’s like a little piece of paradise up there, and it’s absolutely private, no neighbours looking in.
“It has attracted a lot of interest, because it is rare to get a property like this so close to Sydney.”
The home will be auctioned on June 24 if not sold beforehand.
Mrs Denison-Pender expected it to sell for more than $1 million.
Wombarra has achieved a series of million dollar-plus sales during recent months.
This included a three-bedroom home at 529 Lawrence Hargrave Drive, which sold for $1.5 million in early May.
A four-bedroom home at 58 Morrison Avenue, described as an “exquisite two-acre hinterland hideaway” sold at auction in April for $2,475,000.
Mrs Denison-Pender said Wombarra is always popular, because it “offers that little bit of isolation and privacy, if that’s what you’re after”.
“It offers an escape from the villages, the towns and the built-up suburbia,” she said. “It’s an hour out of Sydney, and hence it does attract a lot of interest from Sydney buyers wanting that kind of sea-tree style of escape.”
