Gorgeous historical home hits the market
Hitting the market in Tasmania – and looking for its sixth owner in 37 years – this interesting, convict-built home is offering some lucky purchaser the chance to travel back in time.
The perfectly-preserved “time travel” home is a stunning five-bedroom dwelling named “Kent Cottage”, and truly is a portal to another era – all for a humble, historic $849,000.
The time-capsule house includes an historic shopfront, designed in the Georgian style that the majority of Tasmanian house-hunters have come to expect from the region, and was a general store until 1881. Later it was a grocer, then an iron monger (a dealer of hardware) and a drapery, and more recently served the small local community as a petrol station and an ice-creamery.
The pretty shopfront has soaring sash windows with "SHOP EST. 1833 GENERAL MERCHANT" on plaques above.
At the rear, the residence has been gently updated but feels like a time trip, warmly decorated in an antique manner, with a wood-burning stove (alongside mod cons) and a dining room with an exposed brick wall, laid almost two centuries ago by the weary hands of prisoners.
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