Hidden Collingwood home hits market on infamous Easey St

182 Easey St, Collingwood – for herald sun real estate

A virtually hidden Collingwood home on infamous Easey St has hit the market after its owners took the unusual step of accentuating its modesty.

The 182 Easey St home with a $1.4m-$1.5m asking price is squeezed into a 4.7m wide plot, with interiors just 4.2m across, but is also one of the few homes in the area to boast a front garden.

The result is a dramatic set back that the current owners chose to highlight by rendering the walls of their neighbours homes for a period look.

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And it’s testing the market at the same time as the trial of a man convicted for the 1977 Easey St murders of Suzanne Armstrong and Susan Bartlett.

Harcourts RPG agent Steven John Scalise said with renewed attention on Easey St amid the trial, and while the home was a block or two away from the scene, it would be interesting to see how homebuyers respond — arguing it was now more iconic than infamous.

“It has had a lot of attention on the street, lately,” Mr Scalise said.

“But it will be interesting to see how that reflects. It’s almost a bit of an iconic street now, and maybe not for the right reasons, but it is part of the traditional Collingwood history.”

The owners have highlighted the home’s set back by rendering their neighbours’ walls.

A back yard and barbecue kitchen on the rear deck add to the home’s outdoor appeal.

Also working in the home’s favour to help it stand out is it’s unusual design, with a metres long front yard and deck effectively hiding the home from the street.

“It’s very unusual that you would walk down a street and a home just appears that way out of nowhere, because it’s so set back,” Mr Scalise said.

“Usually they are set back by a metre, if that, so this sort of enhances all of its attributes.

“And they have rendered the party walls out the front to put in block-work look to give that sense of heritage, and that’s very, very unique.”

Mr Scalise said the owners, part of a family-run renovation business, had deliberately left the home’s footprint unchanged — though there was scope permits could be issued to wall off the rear deck to boost the interior space on offer, and potentially even to extend the home by a few metres at the front.

A wine fridge, gas fireplace and modern kitchen add contemporary class to the living zone.

Decorative cornicework was reinstated after interior renovation works.

While they didn’t extend the home, they did extensively renovate it — ripping out most of the interior plasterwork so they could install new insulation, even wrapping the timber frames, before replacing the detailed cornice work in the ceiling to maintain its character feel.

The home now boasts five skylights, more than the number of rooms under the roof line, and the result is that it “feels much bigger when you are in there” than the images would suggest.

“And the proportions and the configuration of the house, when you are there it’s just got such good synergy,” Mr Scalise said.

The two-bedroom, one bathroom floorplan is anchored by an open-plan living zone and kitchen that extends via stacking doors to the rear deck where a second, barbecue kitchen awaits entertainers.