5 Park Lane, Northam WA 6401

In their short period of possession, the owners of this home have spent over $45,000 on renovations some of which include; removal of asbestos and complete recladding of garage walls and roof with new roller door, complete repointing of roof ridge capping, installation of solar PV array and evaporative air conditioner on the roof, reticulation, sewer pipe upgrade, replace bathroom vanity, uplift old floor covering to expose and seal the lovely jarrah floor boards.

I love houses built in the 60s. There appears to be a really solid feel about houses that were built in the 1960s era. I think the migrant builders that arrived in Australia after the Second World War really knew what they were doing. The records show 5 Park Lane’s construction date as 1970 but I suspect it was a few years earlier. Why? Read on…

In the 70s hard concrete pad floors became the norm, ceiling heights had dropped to about 8’ and window and door frames became aluminium or steel. I love 5 Park’s higher ceilings (some with fancy cornices), timber window and door frames, skirting boards and architraves, shiny Jarrah floor boards, fire places, features cherished but absent from modern housing.

This house has four bedrooms, three having built-in robes, the 4th having an external access door which would facilitate easy entry from clients visiting a Home-Office enterprise (subject to Shire approval).

The ‘nerve-centre’ of the house is the meals area which adjoins the kitchen. From here, occupants can scoot to the laundry, the passage storage cupboards and bathroom, the lounge or the side verandah. This zone is heated and cooled by a wall mounted reverse cycle room air conditioner. However, there’s also ducted evaporative air conditioning and a cosy Masport fan forced wood fired room heater set into the lounge room fire place.

Set into the kitchen fire place is a near new electric stove standing beside the original Warren wood stove. Hot water is heated by an 80L electric unit and to ease the electricity bills is a 6 panel solar PV array on the roof.

Adjoining the side verandah is a nice brick paved entertaining area screened from the street by plants and shrubs. It faces North, makes a beautiful winter sitting area and in summer, shade sails neatly stored in the garage can be installed to there points of attachment ready to shade the side of the house from hot reflective sunlight.

In the back yard is a huge garage. Its walls and roof have been reclad in Hardieflex or Colorbond with skylights and an electric door opener giving access to the property’s side street. The garden’s automatic reticulation controller is mounted in there, away from the elements of water and dust.

An older galv iron store shed is tucked behind the garage, screened by a trellis of grape vines which every season yields a yummy crop of table grapes.

Park Lane is so close to Central Region TAFE campus and to Northam Senior High School campus, your kids will love it. If you take a diagonal short-cut stroll across the high school oval, it’s only 500m to the Avon River and less than 1km to Northam’s main street.

We love this home. We think you will too. Ask Steve Hill or Lara Turnbull to give you a walk through. Call us any time.