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316B Ackland Hill Road
Coromandel East SA 5157
4 bed, 3 bath
Offers Close Tue, 5th Aug - 12pm (usp)
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316B Ackland Hill Road, Coromandel East SA 5157
Offers Close Tue, 5th Aug - 12pm (usp) · 4 bed, 3 bath
For sale
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What the selling side says about this home, from its live listing. Their words, not ours.
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Where architecture meets ecology - panoramic living with purpose
Tucked into a breathtaking valley rich in native flora and fauna, this remarkable 11.11 acre (approx) retreat offers more than just a home, it offers a way of life. Designed by award-winning architect John Maitland, the north-facing residence captures light, air and connection to nature at every turn. Crafted with rammed earth walls, passive energy principles and a strong focus on sustainability, this is a home for those who care deeply about their impact and the environment around them.
The residence itself is both beautiful and highly functional, with polished concrete and bamboo floors, comfort E-glazing, in-screed bathroom heating and slow combustion heating with a wet-back system supported by solar. Every window tells a story, framing panoramic bushland views - a reminder of the extraordinary ecosystem you're part of.
Beyond the main home, a charming mudbrick hut built in 1984 and a fully plumbed, double-glazed studio added in 2014 offer versatility and income potential (previously a successful B&B). The land has been the focus of 25+ years of regenerative work and is now a rare and protected remnant woodland home to endangered bandicoots, vulnerable antechinus, and over 70 species of birds.
Here, you can wake to birdsong, walk with wildlife, and steward a property with deep heritage and future-focused purpose. If you've been searching for something meaningful, beautiful, and wholly unique, this is it.
Features we love:
- 4.5ha with 2.9ha (approx.) under Heritage Conservation Agreement grants and reduced council rates available
- Architect-designed home by John Maitland, master of light and passive energy
- Rammed earth construction with dense insulation and comfort E-windows
- North-facing with eaves for passive temperature control
- Slow combustion fireplace with wet-back system for winter hot water
- 1.5kW solar array with room to expand
- Polished concrete floors in main areas; bamboo floors in bedrooms
- Underfloor in-screed heating in bathrooms
- Views from every window across regenerating bushland
- Separate self-contained studio with polished concrete floors
- Separate mudbrick hut built in 1984
- Double carport and double garage with power
- Pizza oven
- Spring water in hillside and a confluence of two year-round creeks
- 66,000L of rainwater storage across three tanks (cleaned 2024) and mains water for garden use
- Chicken run and numerous veggie beds
- Historic dry-stone wall by Arthur Horner (builder of Horner's Bridge)
- Originally owned by James Chambers in 1837 - one year after SA's settlement
- Declared a "Valley of National Significance" by Dr Jasmin Packer (University of Adelaide)
Known habitat for endangered southern brown bandicoots, vulnerable yellow-footed antechinus and rare brushtail possums.
- Over 70 identified bird species and 69 native plant species, including orchids
- 25+ years of careful land regeneration from degraded paddocks to thriving woodland
- Recent termite inspection and chimney clean
- Biolytix wastewater treatment system services both main home and studio
- Three times winner of the Best Rural Garden in City of Onkaparinga (now in Hall of Fame)
- Property not suitable for large livestock (e.g. horses or cattle)
Not just a property, but a piece of living heritage. With sustainable design, regenerative land, and a rare ecological legacy, this is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to live in harmony with nature. Call Valerie Timms or Ellie Purton and become the next steward of something truly special.
Property Access: Drive approximately 1km down the unsealed road.
All information or material provided has been obtained from third party sources and, as such, we cannot guarantee that the information or material is accurate. Ouwens Casserly Real Estate Pty Ltd accepts no liability for any errors or omissions (including, but not limited to, a property's floor plans and land size, building condition or age). Interested potential purchasers should make their own enquiries and obtain their own professional advice.
OUWENS CASSERLY - MAKE IT HAPPEN
RLA 275403
- Features include: Area Views,Built-In Wardrobes,Bush Retreat,Kitchenette,Solar Panels,Dishwasher
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The basics
- Bedrooms
4
- Bathrooms
3
- Car spaces
4
Listing
One of these looks wrongHow buying a home actually works
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What each step involves
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- Find out what you can borrow. Do this before you fall in love with a home. A lender or a mortgage broker works out how big a loan you could get, and that ceiling decides which homes are worth your Saturdays. It is called pre-approval, it is not a loan and it is not a promise, and asking for one costs you nothing.
- Go and stand in a few. Photographs flatter every home ever listed. An open home is free, nobody books you in, and you can leave after two minutes. Walking through five homes in one suburb teaches you what your money buys there, which is the thing no website can tell you.
- Pay somebody to check the home, and somebody to read the contract. A building and pest inspector finds what the photographs left out. A conveyancer or a solicitor reads the contract, which is the part that decides what happens if something goes wrong, and it is written before you ever see it. Both cost money, both are cheaper than what they find, and both happen before you sign rather than after.
- Then you make an offer, or you bid. An offer can usually be made subject to your finance and to the inspection, so you have a way out if either falls over. An auction sale usually has no cooling off period, so at an auction everything above has to be done before you raise your hand. After that comes settlement, which is a month or two of paperwork your conveyancer runs, and then the keys are yours.
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The money
What buying this one would actually cost
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Queensland only, for now
Byrz has transcribed the transfer duty schedule and the registry fees for Queensland, and so far only for Queensland. This home is in SA, so Byrz will not put Queensland rates on it and will not guess at another state's.
Everything else on this page is unaffected, and what each of these costs pays for is the same wherever you buy, so the notes below still hold. A conveyancer in that state will give you the duty and the fees before you sign anything.
What each of these costs pays for
Transfer duty is a tax on the transaction itself, paid to the state, and on most purchases it is far larger than everything else combined. The registration fees pay the state titles office to record who owns the lot and who holds the mortgage over it. Conveyancing pays a person to read the contract, run the searches that tell you whether the property is affected by anything, and move the money on settlement day. Building and pest pays an inspector to walk the home before you are committed.
Why two of these are ranges, not rates
A published rate is set by a government, either applies to you or does not, and you can check it against the schedule yourself in a minute. A typical range is an observation Byrz has made about what people are charged, and nobody is bound by it. A page that mixes the two into one total without saying which is which has misled you by its shape, whatever its words said. Ring two conveyancers and find out what yours will be.
Why none of this can go on the loan
A lender lends against the property, not against the cost of buying it, so none of these charges can be added to the loan. They come out of the same savings you were going to put down, and they come out first. That means the price you can reach is not your savings divided by a deposit percentage: it is your savings, minus all of this, divided by a deposit percentage. People find this out at the wrong end, usually a week before settlement.
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How this area scores with the ABS
These scores describe the area around this home, not this home itself and not the people who live in it.
Scores for the Clarendon area, from the 2021 Census.
- Disadvantage
- 10 out of 10 across Australia
- Advantage and disadvantage
- 8 out of 10 across Australia
- Economic resources
- 10 out of 10 across Australia
- Education and occupation
- 7 out of 10 across Australia
This one is about disadvantage only. A decile of 1 means the area is among the most disadvantaged tenth of areas, counting things like low income, unemployment and homes without a car. A decile of 10 means it has few of those things. A high score does not mean an area is wealthy, only that it has little measured disadvantage.
This one counts advantage and disadvantage together, so it sits on one scale. A decile of 1 means the area has a lot of measured disadvantage and little advantage, and a decile of 10 means the opposite.
This one is about income and housing costs, and it leaves out education and job type on purpose. A decile of 1 means households in the area have relatively fewer economic resources, and a decile of 10 means they have relatively more.
This one is only about how much education people have and what kinds of jobs they do. A decile of 10 means the area has a lot of people with higher qualifications and skilled jobs. It says nothing about income.
SEIFA describes the area, not the people or households in it. These indexes are computed by the Australian Bureau of Statistics for Clarendon, the statistical area this suburb sits in. A statistical area is a Bureau region of a few thousand people, so it can take in more than one suburb. A decile places the area against every other area in Australia: 1 means the lowest tenth on that index and 10 means the highest tenth.
What do these scores actually measure?
SEIFA is how the Australian Bureau of Statistics compares areas. Every area in Australia gets a score from 1 to 10, and the score describes the area as a whole, not any one household in it.
Government records for this location
They describe the location, not the condition of the home.
- Council
Onkaparinga (SOUTH AUSTRALIA)
Please note that ABS approximated boundaries do not match official legal or administrative boundaries and should only be used for statistical purposes.
Where these records come from
Byrz reads these from government flood studies, planning schemes, school catchment maps and public transport datasets, at the mapped coordinate for this home. Boundaries and datasets change, and a mapped risk describes the mapped area, not the state of any building on it. Before relying on one of these records, check it against the council's or the custodian's own tools for this address.
What is a planning overlay?
An overlay is an extra rule a council puts on an area of land, on top of the normal zoning. If a home sits inside one, it means the council looks at certain plans more closely, like building near a waterway or changing an older character home. An overlay does not stop you buying the home.
What is a school catchment?
A state school catchment is the area a school takes its enrolments from, so a home inside one is generally entitled to a place at that school. Catchments are redrawn from time to time and there are exceptions, so confirm with the school or the education department before relying on one. Non-government schools set their own enrolment rules, which is why only state catchments appear here.
What is a lot and plan number?
It is how the state land registry names the piece of land an address is recorded against, and it is what a title search, a council enquiry or a conveyancer will ask you for. It describes the land, not the building on it: every unit in a block shares one plan, and a single parcel can hold more than one home. Where a land size is shown beside it, Byrz measured that from the boundary the registry publishes, because no state publishes the area itself.
Byrz does not yet hold: a past sale price, rent figures for this area.
- No past sale price on file
- We do not have a past sale price for this home. That can mean it has never sold, or simply that we do not have it.
- No rent figures for this area
- We do not have median rents for this area. Government rent releases reach us for some parts of Australia and not others.
Sources
Every figure on this page comes from one of these, and each entry links back to what it is used for.
Source 1
From the sale listing. The home may have changed since.
Source 2
Based on Australian Bureau of Statistics data
SEIFA describes the area, not the people or households in it. These indexes are computed by the Australian Bureau of Statistics for Clarendon, the statistical area this suburb sits in. A statistical area is a Bureau region of a few thousand people, so it can take in more than one suburb. A decile places the area against every other area in Australia: 1 means the lowest tenth on that index and 10 means the highest tenth.
Source 3
Based on Australian Bureau of Statistics data. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Please note that ABS approximated boundaries do not match official legal or administrative boundaries and should only be used for statistical purposes.
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