Description
This home comes with a piece of rich architectural history. Situated in a panhandle on a 2500sqm stand and 525sqm under roof it offers a dramatic 270 degree views before it drops steeply to Lilly Avenue below. The house screens the dramatic view as one approaches down the panhandle creating a feeling of expectation. Upstairs 4 Bedrooms – Views Downstairs – 5th Bedroom/Guest suite 2 Bathrooms – Upstairs Downstairs – 1 Bathroom • Entrance Hall • TV Room – Views • 2 x Studies • Cloakroom • Lounge – Views • Dining room – Views • Kitchen – renovated • Stove with extractor fan • Double eye level oven • Convection oven • Centre Island • Breakfast area • Laundry • Scullery • Double Staff Quarters • Courtyard • Double Garage • Lots of parking • Pool • Fireplace Special features: • Views • Alarm – SCP Security • Rhodesian teak floors • Oregan pine flooring in bedrooms • Fireplace • 3 Geysers • 2500sqm stand • 525sqm under roof • 3 Storerooms • Pool • Breakfast nook • Rates & Taxes R2 884.18 • Water R966.00 • Average COJ Account R3 715.00 incl Rates & Taxes The house forms an approach space consisting of part forecourt and part garden. The circular stair hall at the front entrance integrates various planes on the south elevation and creates a rotatory movement that focuses on the recessed front door. The forecourt space flows through the Oregon and glass front door with its sidelights into the entrance hall, encouraging entry. A mirror directly opposite the front door creates a spatial illusion as one enters into the entrance hall, which opens into the circular double-volume stair hall, which is top-lit through clerestorey windows in turn illuminating an Oregon and rattan staircase. After the feeling of arrival, surprise is experienced as the dramatic views of the exterior explode through the lounge and study windows with magnificent views and a canopy of Jacaranda trees. Suddenly one experiences delight in the quality of Pabst's concept. He used the timeless art of the architect which is space manipulation to create expectations, which are then modified with an element of surprise to create true architectural meaning. A cavity sliding door with a wood carving by Ernst Ullman combines or separate lounge and dining room. As one enters the lounge from the stair hall the new space experience is further enhanced as the view unfolds where Cyprus trees filter the view from the dining room. The curving movement of the dining room is balanced by the counter curve of the circular glass window of the study. Both bring Two cantilevered balconies creating cliff-edge space sensations on the first floor above. The existing flat-roofed scullery and laundry became the generator of a low southwest wing containing a 5th bedroom with an en-suite bathroom and a passage that curves into a double garage creating a vehicular entrance, echoing the main entrance. The garage also opens towards the garden to link the forecourt and the garden beyond. The wing defines the forecourt as a public space and the garden as a private space, within the larger approach space defined by tall Privet and Jacaranda trees. The intelligent zoning of the house by Pabst was remarkably modern after fifty years and very few alterations were required. The only structural change was the partial removal of the pantry wall to form a breakfast nook. The kitchen scullery and laundry were refitted with cupboards in the scullery and pantry. An additional screen wall in the yard screened the outbuildings and created a kitchen patio.
