There are few issues extra quintessentially Melbourne than a great warehouse conversion, hidden in a first-rate inner-city location.
Whereas the streets of Fitzroy and Collingwood are lined with flats inside former warehouses, properties fairly as giant because the factory-turned-house at 4-6 Phoenix Lane in West Melbourne hardly ever hit the market.
That’s why barrister Evelyn Goldberg and her husband couldn’t consider their success once they scored the keys to the three-bedroom pad about eight years in the past.
‘We had been in search of a warehouse property with out of doors house for a while earlier than we noticed this residence on-line,’ Evelyn says.
Constructed as a part of the Phoenix Clothes manufacturing unit again within the 1860s, the brick and bluestone constructing is heritage-listed as certainly one of Victoria’s oldest examples of a mechanised clothes producer from the nineteenth century.
It’s since been transformed into a singular residence that unfolds over three ranges, full with authentic timber flooring, barn doorways, hovering roof trusses, sash home windows, and uncovered pipework painted in a daring purple hue.
‘We had been fortunate the house had all of the options we had dreamed of, together with a “glass field” library room — a full wall of glass within the downstairs space — and most significantly, a very usable out of doors house,’ Evelyn provides.
On the bottom ground, the couple have turned the carport areas right into a courtyard oasis, whereas the complete prime stage of the house encompasses a sweeping open-plan kitchen and eating space.
Evelyn says they’ve cherished the privateness of the constructing’s laneway location, positioned proper on the sting of the the CBD and Flagstaff Gardens.
‘We are going to miss the sensation of being near the whole lot town has – parks, theatre, artwork, eating places and bars,’ she says, having simply listed the house on the market.
‘And the view of the tall residential buildings at night time is charming, with all of the lights of the flats shining.’
4-6 Phoenix Lane, West Melbourne, VIC, 3003, is listed for personal sale with Mark Verrocchi and Bella Cortese at Nelson Alexander Carlton North.
