1395 Sexton Street, Sawyers Valley WA 6074

This is a place with roots. Somewhere under those 126-year-old pear trees lining the driveway, generations of families have picked fruit, fixed fences and watched paddocks turn gold each summer. Behind the white field gate and its recycled brick piers sits a cottage wrapped with deep verandahs and a garden that has had time to find its rhythm. The soil type is sandy loam (will grow anything), and the paddocks are properly fenced, which will mean something to anyone who's farmed before and knows what land wants from them each season. For a family after room to move - chickens in the yard, a horse in the paddock, vegetables in the ground, and still be at the shops in minutes, this property has the space to make it happen.

• 4 bedrooms 2 bathrooms
• 1980s-built Hardi and iron
• OP kitch/meals, sunk lounge
• Updated country kitchen
• Powered 2-room workshop
• Scheme water, tanks, winter dam
• Reticulated gardens & chicken coop
• Solar panels & ducted evap
• 2.7 acres fenced paddocks
• Deep roots, room to grow

Step through either of the two front doors - one leads into a proper entry hall, the other straight into the kitchen, which is how most days here will actually run. White timber cabinetry runs the length of the room, built for a family that cooks properly and gathers while they do it. A jarrah-floored dining area carries on from the kitchen, leading through to a sunken lounge with a slow combustion fire in one corner for winter, and ducted evaporative cooling with ceiling fans to keep things comfortable through summer. White wainscoting and window frames keep the space feeling settled rather than showy, and a pair of doors off the lounge opens onto a sheltered back porch overlooking the garden.

The main bedroom is finished in quiet, calming tones with full-height storage built around a window seat and glazing on three sides that pulls in views across garden and paddock, plus an ensuite with shower, vanity and WC. The junior bedrooms keep the home's history closer to the surface, with jarrah wainscoting and timber floorboards - the main bedroom and one junior are carpeted for comfort. Two of the junior rooms have built-in storage, and one opens directly onto the verandah, the natural spot for visiting family or friends needing a degree of autonomy. A family bathroom with shower, vanity and WC serves the junior wing.

Recycled brick threads through the garden in paths and low walls, tying together an old-fashioned mix of shade trees, flowering shrubs, grasses and fruit trees built up over years. Spring brings blossom in waves, and the garden works as a home for birds and wildlife year-round - a backdrop that changes gently outside every window rather than staying still.

Past the garden, the land opens out into 2.7 acres of paddock, citrus rows and a netted home orchard, with fruit coming on in waves as the seasons turn. It's the kind of soil a farmer would recognise straight away - rich, well-worked ground that makes growing feel easy rather than a battle. There's room here for a vegetable patch to go in and thrive, tomatoes, beans and herbs pulled straight from the ground on a weekday evening and carried into the kitchen still warm from the afternoon sun. For anyone who's worked land before, this is the kind of soil that rewards exactly what you put into it.

A powered two-room workshop with a concrete floor and Dutch doors, plus a machinery shelter and carport, handle the practical end of country living - restoring an old ute, storing hay, or just keeping the mower dry. There's something restorative about old gardens, open paddocks and fruit trees; the pulse slows, and breath deepens.

That slower pace doesn't come at the cost of convenience. Sawyers Valley keeps you close enough to town for school runs and Saturday errands, while this block delivers four bedrooms, two bathrooms and paddocks enough for whatever the family wants to keep, grow or ride. It's a rare combination - and while the home itself was built in the 1980s, these 2.7 acres were carved from a much larger Sawyers Valley orchard whose story goes back well over a century.

To arrange an inspection of this property, call Brent Falkingham on 0407 564 677.