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Classic Californian Home. 1st time offered in 88 years!

Imagine the stories the owner could tell you! She has lived in the home almost all her 82 years and has kept it as immaculately as her parents did before her.
If there was a prize for the Best Kept Garden in Fairlight, she would win it every year! Now, this unique property is seeking a new owner to fall in love with it and to transform it into a modern family home.

* Jamieson Avenue is one of Fairlight's premier streets, being close to Manly Golf Club, Manly West school, Manly's beaches, shops and restaurants, Graham Reserve, and the Manly swimming pool.
* Built in 1922, the house is positioned on a block of almost 500sqm, on the high side of the street, giving it expansive district views. Awesome views would be obtained from a second storey (subject to council approval).
* There are two bedrooms within the original house, plus a third bedroom/workroom at the rear of the home.
* Beautiful original timber beams grace the ceilings of all the main rooms within the home
* The front of the home has a magnificent terraced front garden brim-full of flowers, plants and shrubs, while at the rear lies a level grassy yard which is a perfect area for kids and pets
* Access to transport is handy with buses a short walk away on Balgowlah Road and Sydney Road

The owner can remember when there were paddocks on both sides of her house. And she remembers sleeping on the veranda, listening to the commotion the night the Japanese midget submarines entered Sydney Harbour in 1942.

Today, this is your chance to purchase this original, unique piece of Fairlight's history!

Contact Ian Barr on 0409 904 033

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Suburb: Fairlight

Population: 5,623

Municipality: Manly

Fairlight is located 13 kilometres north-east of the Sydney central business district and lies between Balgowlah and Manly on both sides of Sydney Road. The suburb reaches north past Balgowlah Road and the western boundary is Hill Street.

Fairlight takes its name from Fairlight House built by Henry Gilbert Smith (1802-1886) on land he bought in 1853 from John Parker who had received a land grant in 1837. The house was named after Fairlight, East Sussex, a historic village in Hastings, on the south coast of England.

Fairlight was originally only the area near the beach where Fairlight House once stood, and the suburb at the top of the hill was called Red Hill, due to the pre World War II red gravel surface of Sydney Road.

Fairlight Beach is located on the Manly Scenic Walkway on Sydney Harbour, which can be followed for some kilometres to Spit Bridge. The Beach experiences light harbour swells and southerly winds. Though swells up to 2 metres were recorded following Hurricane Larry, it is not a surfing beach, as the shore is rocky and the break unpredictable. The beach has sand largely made up of shell grit (largely missing from the beaches on either side), and a small rock pool.

Immediately offshore is the partial wreck of K12, a Dutch submarine. The 611-ton submarine was built in 1924 in Rotterdam, and commissioned for service in the the Dutch East Indies. It was blown ashore by storms in August 1950, and grounded on Fairlight Beach. The hull was broken up in situ and removed, but the engines and sections of the bow remain and are accessible by scuba divers.

Fairlight Beach is popular for swimming and snorkelling and as a vantage point to view harbour yacht races. Fairlight is home to the Manly Golf Club and Golf Course. Shops and cafes are located in a shopping strip in Sydney Road.

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