Sprawling Southern Highlands estate like stepping on to a movie set

If you wanted your fill of lush Australian landscape, you could do worse than head towards Robertson in the NSW Southern Highlands.

Here are escarpments, waterfalls and green plains gathering themselves up into rolling hills and forests. The farms are both picturesque and productive.

Elemental beauty also abounds at Paloma Estate, whose (nearly) 40 hectares of land showcase a diversity of textures, levels and shades.

From the modernist elegance of the main home surrounded by a heather-like carpet of grasses to the flat fields accommodating livestock below the sweeping rise, this is a masterwork of utility alongside urbanity.

Belle Property’s Monique Napper describes Paloma as “the best of the best – it’s like the Gaia of the Southern Highlands”, comparing it to the lavish Byron Bay wellness retreat.

“It’s absolutely gorgeous and it’s top of the line in sustainability,” she adds. “All usable land and in such a beautiful area.”

There certainly is abundance here, not the least in that comprehensive sustainability that allows the estate to operate completely off-grid.

“The battery plant here is the first of its kind built in Australia,” Napper says.

New Zealand architects at Fearon Hay – renowned specialists in sustainable, climate-specific design – conceived this low-slung, linear beauty in the best modernist tradition.

Its elemental brawn – glass, steel, concrete – is effortlessly beautiful, shaped into the environment and able to hold its own against the vagaries of the highlands seasons.

Inside, while the finishes are exceptional – imported marble baths, a knockout kitchen, swathes of sliding glass onto gardens –  the opulence finds its best expression in the exquisite library.

“It’s worthy of a movie set,” Napper says, describing the truly eye-popping array of books on shelves that reach to the ceiling and curl around corners.

Like the rest of the house and, indeed, the gardens, the library is dotted with incredible artwork.

The Myles Baldwin Design landscape does a stellar job of delineating areas.

Ponds, running water, hunks of smooth stepping stones, and tall sculptural grasses add to the serenity and create a frame that compliments the broader surroundings but handsomely marks out the residential domain.

There are three other dwellings on this verdant spread. One is a pretty two-storey, three-bedroom cottage with a terraced vegetable garden, a glasshouse and an orchard.

Two studios, with bedrooms, bathrooms and beautiful views, are slotted into the green on opposite sides of the rise.

A stable, riding area and round yard are also offered on what is a property of broad and diverse amenities.

Napper says enquiries have come from everywhere, adding: “This is a one-time-only kind of property. International interest is very strong.”

Wellness retreat. Movie set. Heavenly highland hideaway. The possibilities of Paloma are plentiful and peerless.

Contact Agent

Robertson NSW 2577

9

7

6

View property