ABERCROMBIA is the perfect lifestyle property - for polo ponies.
With its Barwon River frontage, easy access to Melbourne and Lorne and pretty landscaped setting, it's also served owner, Melbourne stockbroker Ben Kay, pretty well.
- ABERCROMBIE
- BIRREGURRA
- Property: equine/lifestyle
- Size: 57ha
- Price: $850,000-plus
- Agent: Bruce Falk Property, Geelong
- Contact: Bruce Falk, (03) 9866 1414
"I came across the property six years ago; it wasn't on the market and I really loved the area - there are a lot of polo properties popping up around it - so I did a doorknock," Ben said.
"I wanted to be on the Barwon River and it just so happened that someone had something that fit the bill; from the very first time I looked at it, I fell in love with it.
"It's private, the trees bordering the property make it feel bigger, there are big old red gums out the back and by the time I got down to the river, I asked him what he wanted and bought it then and there - the rest is history."
Ben has since developed the 57ha property - "a holiday house for the horses" - putting in underground power, roads, fencing, and the infrastructure for training competitive polo ponies.
There's a stick and ball field, tack room, fitness track, round yard, spelling paddocks and a one-bedroom cottage, all less than six years old and in landscaped surrounds.
Water is supplied via the Barwon River and a large dam.
"It works well as a weekender and anyone could walk on to the property and have nothing to do - unless they wanted to build a big beautiful home out the back under the red gums, looking out to the Otways," Ben said.
This was his original plan, before the opportunity arose to buy a larger property with an established home closer to Birregurra.
Ambercrombie is 8km south of Winchelsea and 17km east of Birregurra. It can be reached in 1 1/4 hour's drive from Melbourne and is half an hour from Lorne.
