Historic former Oallen Post Office delivers an idyllic rural lifestyle

History comes in all shapes and sizes and the tale of this beautifully restored property could fit neatly into the size of an envelope. 

Once operating as the town of Oallen’s post office, 519 Corang Post Office Road now serves the community as a vestige of a time gone by but not forgotten.

“There has not been another home that I have walked in that has given me such feelings of awe and tranquillity. It’s a feeling that new builds just cannot give you,” selling agent Lauren Kennedy of Elders Real Estate Goulburn, says.

“You can almost hear the walls moving with the sounds of all those people who have been there before, the post delivery people, the horses out the front ready to carry the mail, the excitement of receiving a letter from loved ones from afar.”

The original building was crafted circa 1900 but across two and a half years around the turn of the century, the owners laboured, nurtured and expanded upon “what was” to create “what is”. 

The main homestead is where the Corang Post Office calls home and every care was taken to ensure remnants of the past and period details were not lost but illuminated instead. 

“The large, open-plan kitchen and dining area has the most exquisite pressed tin ceilings, and the detail is then carried down into the cabinet doors,” Kennedy says.

“Following the wooden floorboards further into the home, you find many period touches. Raised patterned ceilings meet wall colours considerate of the period in which it was built.”

With its timber-clad walls, exposed beams on the ceiling, and a room-length bench fitted with a sink, the post office acts as the perfect speciality space. From sewing room to workshop and everything in between, it really is still the heart of the home waiting for the next chapter of creation.

Unless of course, you love to cook, then your eyes just cannot be drawn away from the sprawling kitchen. The pitched roof causes a wonderfully unique duality in which the area becomes both cosy and open at once, just as the stained glass windows allow colourful light to dance across the room.

Its only real competition is the warm and open wood-burning fireplace in the living room or the overwhelming sense of tranquillity you get when stepping outside to over 40 hectares of private pastures.

“The idea of being able to feed your chickens, eat organic eggs and pick your very own raspberries straight from the canes is a dream that many people have, and this property can certainly offer all of those things,” Kennedy says.

“Here, you’re able to get back to basics with living off the grid while still being connected with the outside world.”

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Price guide: $1.1 million

Auction: 11am, February 25

Agent: Elders Real Estate Goulburn, Lauren Kennedy 0482 645 611