10 Ocean Street Hampton

A landmark on a Hampton hill highpoint, Ronaldsay c.1908 makes history as one of Bayside’s finest Edwardians …and greatest renovations. Built as showpiece of the 1900s and renovated to the design of architect, Robert Harwood, this up to five bedroom, 3.5 bathroom red-brick residence offers suite accommodation upstairs and down, and living that transitions seamlessly from grand original rooms, to the most sophisticated contemporary living.

Uniquely entertaining with the original gentlemen’s billiards lounge reimagined as a grand entertainment zone (still with a slate billiards table on its fortified floor), the home’s fine original rooms are vastly versatile with grand central lounge or dining, and a quiet sitting-room or library-sized home-office with bespoke wall-bed adding fifth bedroom potential… rich with period detail including lavish leadlight and fine fretwork beneath lofty 4m pressed metal ceilings.

Transitioning in breath-taking style to the soaring proportions of the luminous family zone, the contemporary space faces the pool with walls of full-height sliders, and opens up to the sky with a full-depth roof-window. In this vast space, a leading-edge Neff appliance kitchen (with induction cooktop and dual ovens) stretches out beyond a 4m marble bench … while a laundry-butler’s pantry hides within its streamlined cabinetry.

Designed to accommodate today’s changing lifestyles, the home offers the choice of a ground-floor guest-suite (or alternative master) plus a dedicated master-level with balcony and palm-fringed bay-horizon views. Appointed in state-of-the-art style with luxe bathrooms including two private ensuites (upstairs with dual-vanity and egg-bath), the home offers endless storage in custom joinery including robes and LED-lit first-floor shirt-cabinetry.

Expertly curated with textural Stone-Italia benchtops, Silverstone flooring, designer lighting and plantation-shutters against the gracious backdrop of the original home, interiors are cleverly reimagined with sleek French doors along with wide bay windows, impressive decorative fireplaces (one converted to gas), and an original claw-foot bath resurfaced in a today’s most restful hue.

With individual climate-control systems including reverse-cycle air-conditioning, plus ducted and in-floor heating, the home is secured by an alarm and auto-gates – with plentiful parking including a double auto-garage. Set beyond a well-positioned palm in approx 920sqm grounds, there’s a fully tiled heated pool in the rear garden’s sunniest corner, and plentiful secure play space front and rear.

Rising above the rest just one block from the latte strip, this outstanding period home enjoys one of today’s most in-demand locations - 300m to the station and a few blocks to the bay, a walk to Hampton Primary School, and within easy reach of the South Rd college (Haileybury and St. Leonard’s) and the Brighton schools (Firbank and Brighton Grammar).

For further details please call Julian Augustini from Hodges Brighton on 0418 558 408 or Romana Preston from Hodges Brighton on 0401 066 909.

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