77a John Street
Eltham VIC 3095

Rich in character and history, this extremely rare one-bedroom mud brick home offers a genuine once in a lifetime opportunity to enter one of Eltham’s most historically significant neighbourhoods.

Set at the top end of John Street within Eltham’s tightly-held ‘Mud Brick Precinct’ — an exclusive neighbourhood home to artists and musicians from the early 1950s and 60s and featuring a number of mud brick houses dating back to the 1940s built by Alistair Knox, Gordon Ford, Peter Glass and others — this timeless residence was designed by Peter Glass and built by Pat Begg (two significant figures in the Eltham building scene) and is therefore quintessentially Eltham.

Sited on a position once known as ‘Bald Headed Manor’ after the song Bald Headed Mama, this rustic beauty features a large light-filled living area at its heart, where a timber pitched ceiling accentuates height and space and a mixture of exposed brick and timber walls complement the natural leafy surrounds.

A well-appointed kitchen offers plenty of space to move about, while a large bright bathroom with laundry facilities, spacious robed bedroom and off-street parking adds further appeal.

Surrounded by established gardens that promote privacy and tranquillity, it’s easy to think you’re back at the peaceful quince farm (which is what this land was in a former life), whereas in fact you’re in central Eltham and therefore within a short walk of Eltham Hotel, Main Road shops and cafes, Eltham train station, the scenic Diamond Creek Trail, Eltham Primary School and Eltham High School.