178 and 178a Main Road, Waikouaiti, Dunedin

2012-built home with shop!

SOLD BY STEVEN FIELD
What a find! A modern home with a massive workshop (once a saddlery) and main-street shop frontage.
The living area is spacious and open plan, featuring a highly effective woodburner. Timber floors and ceilings throughout glow with joy and match the kitchen joinery.
Accommodation is provided for with two-bedrooms plus a sleepout, with the laundry currently repurposed as a bunkroom that the kids just love!
Enjoy the benefits of a home built under the modern building code with none of the worries associated with older dwellings.
This home is warm and healthy with full insulation and double glazing.
A sun-baked North-facing veranda with relaxing rural views runs the length of the house acting as the perfect transition to the garden. At 1518 sq.m. (+/-) and getting all day sun this is the gardeners paradise with a good start being made already with a design by Waitati-based Edible Gardens having been implemented: heritage apples, plums, peaches, strawberries, currants, feijoas- you name it! There is a shadehouse and two greenhouses in place, all in great condition, ideal for your tomatoes and capsicums, and there are a couple of small new garden sheds for tool storage.
Subject to council consent, the workshop and associated shop provide options for a home industry or business with main street visibility for that commercial venture you've always dreamed about: a rare opportunity!
The convenience of this location really is unparalleled with a variety of shops, a tavern, and cafes, all right at the end of your driveway; indeed next door is a bakery, a fish and chip shop, and the vets! It is a pleasant 25-minute walk around Hawksbury lagoon to the beautiful and understated Waikouaiti beach with surf waves and stunning white sands. The primary school with about 100 pupils is really good and there's a regular bus to town.
The vendors have loved life in the heart of this friendly rural community but now family is calling them North.