Make the East End your oyster in a proud piece of Hackney history… 11 Westbury Street, Hackney With the scope to make your mark on an 1880-built symmetrical villa with grand spaces, pool and prized rear lane access on some 822sqm, this is a rare chance to write a new chapter in Hackney history on the very boundaries of Adelaide's Botanic Gardens and buzzing East End. Built before the car replaced horse and cart, this regal 4-bedroom home – and former Hackney Nursery – has proudly witnessed Adelaide's city fringes grow around its robust and beautiful bluestone walls. The current custodians have preserved with a sense of pride the polished pine floors, soaring decorative ceilings (3.2m), ornate cornices, and fireplaces that feature with constant regularity amongst a wide hall, six main rooms, and a cellar with the storage space for a semi-serious collector. How you configure these rooms is really up to you in a home that was extended to separate sleep and formal occasions from casual lounging around and cooking up storms. With Norwegian blue granite tops, island, gas cooktop, dishwasher, storage galore and room to glide from one station to the next, the kitchen is a cook's best friend alongside a light-filled living room framed in a floor-to-ceiling sea of thick glass granting a complete view of that lush, colourful rear yard. Serve spring brunch under the pergola before plunging for a cooling dip in the pool hiding behind an old wisteria covered brick wall, and beside a double garage so you can come and go with quiet ease. And when it's all... Lot/Plan No: D487/A24