You Wish: A renovated period home in Melbourne's prized dress circle

36 St Georges Road, Toorak
About $5.5 million

It’s a draw between heart and head at this renovated period home, sitting high and proud among elite neighbours in Melbourne’s prized dress circle, a stroll from the Yarra.

The romantic English-style facade with asymmetrical gables, dark shutters and a pebbled forecourt adds a certain cultured charm to its leafy streetscape.

Hearts are aflutter at the interior’s sweep of deep-stained oak floors and its mix-and-match, white, multi-paned casement windows and mid-century-style panes in black steel frames, floor-to-ceiling and clerestory.

Then our practical side acknowledges excellent family accommodation, living spaces, bonus attic retreat and easy-care, Jack Merlo-designed garden, plus a brilliant stainless-steel and marble kitchen.

Agent Rodney Morley describes it as “good buying” and welcomes inspections at 1pm Saturday and Sunday prior to the noon auction on April 8.