Completed in 2018 'Hayfield Rise' is a collaboration between award-winning architect and owner Steve Domoney and one of Australia's highest profile landscape designers, Paul Bangay. The result is an exceptionally refined High-Country Estate with all the inclusions expected for a permanent 'tree change' residency or an ultimate luxury escape.

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The property was marketed by lifestyle property specialist, Kate McDougall McGrath Mansfield Principal as an "ultimate luxury escape". It was sold fully furnished, walk in, walk out.

Kate told WILLIAMS MEDIA, "We launched the property during Covid. It took some months to find the right buyer; someone who would appreciate all that has gone into creating an iconic high-country estate.”

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The property comprised of four pavilions is set on 48 acres (19.42 ha) in the beautiful Ancona Valley surrounded by rolling pasture, mountains and river flats in the majestic Victorian High Country. 

Architect and owner, Steve Domoney told WILLIAMS MEDIA, "The property was purchased as pastoral acreage, with an existing modest weekender fashioned from an original hayshed, were inspired by the discrete rural structures that prevail throughout the region, their raw & honest material palette and their intimate connection to their landscape setting."

"We sought to develop a cluster of interconnecting pavilions arranged somewhat village-like about a central village green which would ultimately become ‘Hayfield Rise’." 

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The four agriculturally inspired pavilions of 'Hayfield Rise' interconnect around a central formal garden and resort-style pool area. Accommodation consists of five bedrooms including a separate studio and a two-bedroom guest house.

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Each pavilion serves a purpose and each exudes a sense of individualism, the materials used blend beautifully together and include recycled timbers, concrete, stone and galvanised iron.

The landscape masterplan devised by Paul Bangay Design and implemented by Steve and his wife, Lek Domoney includes a magnificent terraced Japanese walkway, rose garden, orchard, kitchen garden, perennial garden beds and established hedging. 

"It was not our original intention to create such an extensive series of formal garden rooms around the structures, however as our fondness for this place grew, so did our ambitions for its ultimate outcome, both as a respectful piece of architecture and intimately entwined garden setting." Steve continued.

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The property has creek frontage, substantial water storage as well as two dams in the fully fenced paddocks.

“I’ve sold many magnificent lifestyle properties in the High Country but nothing as iconic as this,” Kate said following the sale, "Interest came from multiple buyers from interstate, the Mornington Peninsula and Melbourne."

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The eventual buyer has homes in Brisbane and Melbourne but wanted to live closer to her Melbourne-based children. She grew up on a farm and is thrilled to be making Hayfield Rise her new home.

 Kate reported the lifestyle property market is hot, “There is a high demand for such properties but stock at the moment is low. There’s just not enough for buyers," she said. "Victoria’s south-east region has significant attractions, buyers want proximity to the snowfields, Lake Elidon and the pristine rivers and mountains of this region.” 

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Undoubtedly one of the North Easts most extraordinary and unsurpassed lifestyle properties.

The property sold in line with its guide of $4 million.

For more information or to view listing click here.

Source: McGrath

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