Woolcock Partners Real Estate
38-40 Brisbane Street
LAUNCESTON TAS, 7250
Ph: 03 6331 3033
Fax: 03 6334 2720
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195 St John Street
For Sale $2,700,000
In a commanding position overlooking the city centre and Tamar River beyond Hillcrest House enjoys an incredibly rich local history and in recent times has been the subject of an amazingly detailed and sympathetic renovation.
From its early beginnings as a single storey cottage this distinguished St John Street property became in 1897, at the instigation of Lady Gormanston wife of the then Governor of Tasmania, the Queen Victoria Hospital for Women.
Described by the media at the time as “a work of the people” the hospital was in part made possible by the generosity of businesses and community minded individuals which included a fund raising concert at the Albert Hall and public donations of sheets, blankets and furniture.
The passage of time saw the hospital move to High Street and Hillcrest House became a boarding house for young country women.
At the time the Stevenson’s purchased the property Hillcrest House was rented as 6 seperate flats.
The renovation was lengthy and tedious [18 months] and involved Heritage Architects, specialist designers and dozens of tradesman all with a specific and uncompromising brief to maintain Hillcrest’s Heritage.
Refurbishment of the 776m2 two-storey Heritage Listed building was completed in 2004 and is now a far cry from its early life as a women’s hospital.
Hillcrest House is now a light, bright and airy 5-bedroom home of grand proportions, offering combinations of formal and informal living rooms with many original features retained to remind the casual observer of the property’s colourful history.
The property is zoned Urban Residential and does by virtue of this zoning offer a number of discretionary uses such as a Bed and Breakfast, Motel or Multiple dwelling/Apartments.
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