Massive Yarra Glen home dubbed ‘a bit Banjo Patterson’ has its own pub, cinema

A Yarra Glen home with its own pub and a bucolic setting that’s a “bit Banjo Patterson” is mesmerising buyers with a mix of amazing views and history.

The estate on a whopping 42.09ha at 2002 Eltham-Yarra Glen Rd was named Kincraig by its Scotland-born former owners John and David Ross.

The latter was an astronomer who discovered two comets and built an observatory at the property, which was destroyed by fire in 1939.

The site is still marked in the gardens, but the residence that stands at the idyllic property today retains some heavenly features.

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RT Edgar Yarra Valley’s Gerard Kennan said the property offered the “quintessential Australian acreage”.

“The views are outstanding and the countryside has tracks through the trees and up and down the hillsides, and being part bush and part pastoral – it’s a bit Banjo Patterson,” Mr Kennan said.

“It’s just a pleasure to walk through it spotting eagles and kangaroos.”

He said the home’s South Australian sandstone facade and bold design would be equally at home in Kew, Brighton or Toorak, but made the most of its location with a curving outlook from the main living space that captures the panorama across the Yarra Valley.

The open-plan lounge room and dining zone have designer cluster lights and a skylight above them, and are adjoined by a kitchen with “everything you could need”.

It features a Falcon oven, sweeping granite benchtops, mirrored splashbacks, a butler’s pantry and pendant lights above an island bench.

“The scale of the kitchen and the living, meals and dining area connecting with those massive windows to the outside environment strikes you as soon as you walk in there – and you are really just mesmerised by it,” Mr Kennan said.

The living zone is bookended by a rumpus room on one side and a family zone behind a double-sided Cheminees Philippe fireplace to the other.

But its pub-like home bar, dubbed The Kincraig Arms, at the rear of the ground level that will really wow guests.

“The bar is a ripper and a functional one, too,” Mr Kennan said.

“And the ambience in that room, which leads in to the theatre room, makes it just a sensational part of the home.”

A circular indent in the ceiling of the theatre mimics “a starlit night sky”, a subtle nod to the site’s history as an observatory.

Upstairs, the ground-level has six bedrooms, three zoned to either side of the home’s main entry and a central staircase.

Two mains, set at opposite ends of the level, have walk-in wardrobes and an ensuite.

A gym rounds out the floor, while an attic above it offers storage space.

Outside, a spa set into a deck and a fire-pit ringed by timber seating are positioned to make the most of the outlook.

The home also has a triple garage flanked by two more double garages, with basement storage and workshop spaces, to accommodate seven cars and lifestyle vehicles as needed.

The vendors are relocating interstate.

Mr Kennan said the buyer would likely be someone from in the city looking for a getaway, or possibly even thinking about a tourism venture such as a cellar door or accommodation.

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