148 Tasman Street, Nelson, Nelson

Gorgeous city-side home, pool, prime quality

Superb, prime quality living beckons with this magnificent two-storey home set amid splendid gardens with swimming pool, within sight of Nelson Cathedral. A magnificent native woodlot of Pohutukawa, rata and totara, provide a secluded setting behind the tall paling fence for the 1934 home, surely one of the city's finest of this era.
With four bedrooms, two living areas, an office, two bathrooms and three toilets, this is a spacious home. Original features are superbly intact, but the home has been updated for modern day comfort. Sash and leadlight windows and light-coloured rimu timbers with the warm patina of 85 years-plus are distinguishing features. Arts & Crafts period craftsmanship is evident throughout.
Lovely rooms are full of light and with the family room and the more formal lounge, there are spaces for all the family to enjoy.
With spacious, quarter-acre (1,085sqm) gardens, it is a property children will adore for play - and for parents it's a lovely retreat and a home for memorable, stylish entertaining.
Look around and you will see that this is a home built with diligence and quality materials. Floors are rimu or matai and skirting boards and architraves are rimu. Downstairs clear windows have been double-glazed and secondary panels give the leadlights double layers.
Behind the gib walls, shiplap timbers remain, and the roof is fully sarked. The top floor is single-glazed, but sun-warmed.
The house is warmed by a log burner in the kitchen/dining/family room plus heat pump, and a gas fire in the lounge. There's an HRV system, too and the house is well-served for water heating, with a 300-litre electric cylinder for one part of the house and a gas caliphont for the other.
Step inside the garden gate to the gracious 1,085sqm grounds, a salt-water pool sparkling in the sunshine and a gorgeous courtyard overlooking the babbling waters of the Brook stream.
Homes of this quality so close to town are rarely available. Call Nina James for an appointment to view.