10-08-2025
Top notch equestrian estate with luxury home listed in Wallington
The vendor of this Wallington lifestyle property threw caution to the wind when her family bought the 10ha parcel of land with no guarantee of securing a building permit for a house.
The keen showjumper and dressage rider faced a long wait, exacerbated by Covid, before getting the green light to construct a new modern farmhouse at 522-550 Grubb Rd, Wallington.
But, true to form, she put the time to good use, creating the equestrian estate of her dreams.
'I had my horses agisted at a place and I was spending several hours a day there and my husband and daughter got sick of me not being around,' she says.
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'They said 'why don't be buy some land so we can have the horses there?'. We looked at everything from five acres and this 25 acres had become available and it was a blank canvas so we bought it very much on spec hoping we would be able to get a building permit and started the equestrian facilities and they just took on a life of their own.'
A full sized showjumping area, 22 paddocks and four 6m x 6m stables are among first-class equestrian facilities that now bring in an income through agistment and clinics.
Much to everyone else's relief, the family also eventually got its long-awaited custom luxury home, constructed by award-winning Bellarine Peninsula firm Larkin & Drought.
The vendor designed the four-bedroom, four-bathroom house with help from a draftsman and wanted it to look like a shearing shed so it didn't stand out in the area's rural landscape.
A glass breezeway – suggested by builder Drew Larkin – links two pavilions, one home to a vast open-plan living area and the other a rumpus room and four bedrooms, each with its own ensuite and walk-in wardrobe.
'That big open living area is really lovely to spend time in but it's really quite surprising when you open up the door between the sections of the house and that glass walkway is just filled with beautiful light no matter what time of day because it goes east and west,' the vendors says.
As well as crafting the living area's signature exposed rafters, the builder also added an exposed brick wall and devised a clever spiral deck wrapped in corrugated cladding for the magnesium plunge pool outside.
'He took a bit of artistic licence and ran with it, which was really nice. He was really fantastic to work with,' she says.
Wide vine-covered decks for entertaining or soaking up the rural views and a fire pit area are accessible from both the primary living area and the oversized main bedroom suite.
In winter, built-in bench seating in the living room invites guests to settle in by the double sided wood fire.
'We have the most expansive views from all the windows, it's quite incredible. You get sunrises on one side and sunsets on the other,' the vendor says.
RT Edgar, Bellarine agent Felix Hakins is calling for expressions of interest in 522-550 Grubb Rd, Wallington, by 5pm on August 25. Price hopes are $4.8m to $5.28m.
