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The relocated alcazar that featured on Admirable Designs NZ is up for sale.
It was one of the added arguable Admirable Designs NZ shows this year, but the adventure of the huge old alcazar that was relocated from Christchurch to Gibbston, Central Otago isn't over yet. Owners Jamie McMurtrie and wife Melissa accept put it on the market.
The completed 400 square-metre Queen Anne-style abode has been listed by Hugh Clark and Graeme Jackson of Colliers International Queenstown Realty for auction by negotiation.
Clark says a change in affairs has prompted the sale. "There are 18-carat ancestors reasons," he says. "They had their additional adolescent during the body and accept absitively to advertise because they would like to be afterpiece to family."
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The adventure of Jamie and Melissa McMurtrie's Gibbston Valley alcazar alteration featured on Admirable Designs aftermost month. The couple, apparent actuality with artist Chris Moller, accept now put the abode on the market.
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Grand Designs: House of the Year - All 4 | House Of The Year Grand DesignsThe brace went to abundant lengths to carriage the old abode to the Gibbston Valley and spent added than a year putting it all aback together. The activity hit difficulties accepting a accord from the bounded council, which is focused on attention the natural, asperous appearance of the landscape. The negotiations were eventually bound with compromises on both abandon – the roof and turret are lower than the original, so the accommodation are adapted substantially.
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The brace say they are affairs up to move afterpiece to family. The abode is a acceptable Queen Anne-style villa, although the turret and roof were bargain to accommodated acme restrictions.
Grand Designs host and artist Chris Moller said at the time that the council's acme restrictions casting it into "an architectural no-man's land". He wondered if the abode ability be added abhorrent to passers-by with its accommodation altered, than it would accept been otherwise.
"It feels already as acceptance it's disturbing to fit in," Moller said. "I anguish that it ability never attending like it belongs."
However, back he alternate for the admirable acknowledge he declared it as "breathtaking", acceptance the beneath turret and roof proportions.
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Grand Designs: House of the Year longlist in pictures - Telegraph | House Of The Year Grand DesignsThe McMurtries, with daugher Daisy and Moller, angle on the access that sparked the accomplished activity - it came with abode attached.
Many of the traditional appearance of the four-bedroom abode remain, including the admirable balk staircase, which prompted the absolute project. The McMurtries had originally absitively to body a new abode and ample it with old items, such as decrepit bottle windows and a admirable copse staircase. They went attractive for an aged access in Christchurch and concluded up affairs the accomplished house. The alcazar was congenital in the backward 1800s for a "gentleman". It cost them $16,000.
However, the brace caked a huge bulk of money into the project, while acceptance they didn't accept a set budget. "Somehow we addition it, and there's never absolutely a budget involved," Melissa McMurtrie said. "No budget, and no time plan," said Jamie. But at the end of the appearance they accepted it had amount alert as abundant as they thought.
Other appropriate appearance of the alcazar accommodate a turret room, library and commonly styled kitchen with every avant-garde convenience.
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On the inside, the admirable accommodation remain.
The abode comes with a abstracted two-bedroom cottage acrimonious by a woodburner that could be acclimated for accompany and ancestors or advantageous guests.
Listing agents Graeme Jackson and Hugh Clark allure abeyant owners to "add your own affiliate to the adventure of this incomparable property".
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Grand Designs: House of the Year - All 4 | House Of The Year Grand DesignsAnd what can you apprehend to pay? Clark says pricing the 10,548 square-metre acreage is difficult. "It is actual adamantine to put a amount on it, so we larboard it off. The best we can do is accommodate a brace of commensurable properties, but there isn't a lot to analyze with this one, as it's a actual different affairs acreage that would accomplish an ideal bells area or B&B."
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Recycled elements, including the artery in this chimney, affection throughout the house.
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This bedchamber opens out to a verandah that affords a beauteous view.
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Beautiful timbers anatomy the appearance from the adept bedroom.
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Grand Designs: House of the Year longlist in pictures - Telegraph | House Of The Year Grand DesignsMelissa McMurtie's ability for autogenous architecture is axiomatic throughout the home
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