Drysdale property where two homes will double the fun

Two houses and a vineyard in one of the region’s best wine growing districts are just the start at this acreage property on the Bellarine Peninsula.

Bennettswood, at 2-38 Soho Rd, Drysdale, is an almost 15ha rural property with two houses, a vineyard and paddocks for agricultural pursuits.

A Drysdale rural property offers the rare opportunity to score two houses and a vineyard in one of Victoria’s best wine-producing regions.

Bennettswood is a 14.38ha acreage property at 2-38 Soho Rd that comes on to the market for the first time in 45 years with price expectations of $2.3m.

The property is going to auction on November 30 at 2.30pm.

HF Richardson, Newtown agent Tony Hyde said Bennettswood offers a rare opportunity given the layout of the property.

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The elevated property has views across Swan Bay and Port Phillip Bay.

The main house has three bedrooms and two bathrooms.

“It’s a very rare to get two house on a 35-acre parcel of land,” Mr Hyde said.

“It gives you a multitude of opportunities to either live in one house and rent out the other, expand the vineyard consisting of 440 shiraz vines and use one of the houses as the cellar door or to rebuild your dream home at the back of the property at the highest point to take in the panoramic water views stretching around the bay from Barwon Heads to Curlewis.”

The first of two homes on the property is a brick residence offering three bedrooms and two bathrooms, including an ensuite to the main bedroom.

There is a four-bay machinery shed, a hay shed and water tanks with 46,000lt capacity to service the house.

The vineyard is planted with 440 shiraz vines.

The second house offers an additional income opportunity as a rental, or cellar door.

The second residence it at the opposite end of the property.

A weatherboard house, it also has three bedrooms, but one bathroom and an open-plan kitchen, dining and living area.

It’s surrounded with a vegie garden, a chook pen, garden shed and a three-bay machinery shed.

Mr Hyde said it’s ideal as a rental or a cellar door.

The property enjoys a town water supply (private line), plus bore water, and three dams, along with 440 established shiraz vines.

It’s divided into six main paddocks ideal for livestock or a variety of farming pursuits, and has stock yards.

The property also fronts Murradoc Rd, and has easy connections to Drysdale, Queenscliff and Portarlington, where a ferry connects to Melbourne.

Originally published as Drysdale property where two homes will double the fun