'Alba Longa' in Appian Way Burwood

a rare Appian Way sale (in 2015)

 

"When wealthy industrialist George J. Hoskins built his model housing estate in the early 1900s, he decreed they were to be occupied by “selected tenants of appropriate social standing”.

Living on Appian Way was aspirational then, and remains so today with the surviving homes heritage-listed and rarely traded.

When they do sell, these properties fetch some of the suburb’s highest prices. 

It’s not difficult to see why.

Appian Way delivers the visitor back in time with its grand Federation homes winding along a tree-lined avenue and around a central green owned by the residents and hosting a lawn tennis club and Edwardian pavilion clubhouse.

 

"Alba Longa, a classic example of Federation Queen Anne style (illustrated at left) has been beautifully restored and extended.

You will find all the expected period features – marble and cast iron fireplaces, stained glass and leadlight windows, picture rails and ceiling roses – but there is a lightness to their treatment which allows the home to be fresh and bright."

It will take a large family to fill its many rooms. There are two formal living rooms at the front of the home, one beneath the property’s octagonal tower which presents as a sunny alcove in the far corner of the room.

This room opens onto the covered verandah which wraps around the north-west corner of the house.

Six bedrooms march their way down a long, wide hall. The three on the eastern side of the house open onto a sunroom and one of these is custom-fitted as a study. The main bedroom faces west and has a walk-in wardrobe and en suite plus access to the verandah.

The modern kitchen and the family living and dining spaces sit at the back of the home and open to a vergola-covered deck with built-in seating.

- KATE FARRELLY March 21, 2015

For a look inside 'Alba Longa' check out "Inside 4 Appian Way" below

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