675 Cradle Mountain Road, Erriba, Tas 7310

Some properties have a view. This one has the view, and a landscape — with twenty-five years of care put into it.

Erriba Rise sits on the edge of the Cradle Mountain alpine plateau, thirty minutes from the World Heritage national park and forty-five from Devonport, Ulverstone and Latrobe. The outlook takes in Mount Roland, Van Dyke and Claude, the glacially carved Forth Valley and Lake Cethana, with the Walls of Jerusalem and Mount Ossa in the distance.

The House

Completed in 2013 and built to sit quietly inside all of it. North-east facing across two levels, with floor-to-ceiling glass in most rooms. Three bedrooms, three bathrooms, polished concrete over hydronic underfloor heating, a Cheminées Philippe fireplace, galley kitchen and butler's pantry, spacious study, two living areas, craft room, double garage, and decks that have hosted a great many long lunches.

What the plan doesn't tell you is how it handles weather. The north-east aspect takes the morning straight up the valley, the concrete holds it through the day, and the heating underneath means the floor is warm on the mornings the snow comes in. Two living areas let the house be full or quiet depending on the day. Each bedroom has its own bathroom, so guests keep their own corner of it. The kitchen and butler's pantry were built by people who cook for numbers, and in summer the doors go back and the decks become the other half of the house. Four distinct seasons cross three mountains in front of you, and this home was designed so you'd notice every one of them.

The Land

The 30.7 Ha are what people remember. Wet sclerophyll / rain forest falls away from the escarpment through natural terraces, past hexagonal basalt columns that run for hundreds of metres along the cliff line. Trees more than four hundred years old. A perched winter wetland of lemon bottlebrush and tea tree, deep in moss. Poa and wallaby grasslands. Two kilometres of rock-lined walking track — The Enchanted Way — threads through all of it.

Most of this is protected in perpetuity under one of Tasmania's earliest conservation covenants, reinforced by a Landscape Conservation rezoning. The remaining third, farmed briefly a century ago, has been returned to its natural state by hand: more than 3,000 trees and shrubs and 7,000 native grasses planted over twenty-five years. The right to build further walking tracks has already been negotiated — a project waiting for whoever comes next.

Beyond the House

A self-contained timber cabin among the stringybarks with its own driveway, power and hot water, sleeping four. A fenced vegetable garden with glasshouse and chicken run. A workshop in a converted forty-foot container, three-phase power to the entire property. Three woodsheds holding two years of firewood, milled on site from storm-fallen timber. And even a three-quarter size croquet court.

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Disclaimer: 
*4front Real Estate has no reason to doubt the accuracy of the information in this document which has been sourced from means which are considered reliable, however we cannot guarantee accuracy. Prospective purchasers are advised to carry out their own investigations. All measurements are approximate. *