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Tv, radio and podcast star Kate Langbroek and her husband Peter Allan Lewis are promoting their residence at 7 Burnett St, St Kilda.
Comic, radio and tv presenter Kate Langbroek and husband Peter Allan Lewis have put the St Kilda home the place they’ve celebrated many particular household occasions on the marking.
Langbroek is a number on TV’s actuality courting program My Mum Your Dad and present affairs present The Challenge, and has appeared on Have You Been Paying Consideration?, Thank God You’re Right here, The Panel and Dancing with the Stars.
Alongside fellow comic Dave Hughes, she offered the long-running Hughesy & Kate FM radio present till her 2019 departure when she, Mr Lewis and their 4 youngsters briefly relocated to Bologna, Italy, for 2 years.
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Langbroek wrote a memoir of their time in Europe titled Ciao Bella! Six Take Italy and now hosts The Buck-Up podcast with comic Nath Valvo.
Belle Property St Kilda principal John Manning stated Langbroek and Mr Lewis had modernised and prolonged their circa-1855 home, however stored the interval facade, throughout the previous 10 years.
The five-bedroom residence at 7 Burnett St, named Fenagh Cottage, was initially constructed for George Watson, a racehorse proprietor, Melbourne Cup race starter, member of the Victoria Racing Membership’s first committee and founding father of the Melbourne Hunt Membership, a fox-hunting membership now primarily based in Pakenham.
The kitchen options an island bench, pendant lighting, soft-close drawers and stainless-steel ASKO and Smeg home equipment.
Kate Langbroek and Peter Allan Lewis. Image: Instagram/Equipped.
The primary bed room appears to be like out onto the again yard.
Langbroek stated their household moved into the home when their daughter was simply three weeks previous and their eldest son 18 months previous.
“We added two extra youngsters to the home, and beloved it a lot we stayed for 16 years,” she stated.
Langbroek completed writing her e book within the attic which she described as “actually personal and faraway from the remainder of the home, it’s like a secret house”.
“With the gorgeous afternoon mild streaming in, I’d be transported for a number of hours day by day, ‘til I got here down for dinner,” she stated.
“Additionally Ciao Bella has gone on to grow to be a bestseller, and is now optioned for a TV collection, so I feel that room – and home – can be excellent luck.”
A sandstone hearth in the principle residing space.
Kate Langbroek and Dave “Hughesy” Hughes reunited for a one-off tv gig on Movie star Gogglebox to boost consciousness for on-line youth psychological well being service ReachOut Australia, in 2023. Image: Foxtel/Narelle Portanier.
The claw-footed bathtub and double self-importance within the household rest room.
Fenagh Cottage welcomes guests with a landscaped entrance backyard and veranda earlier than opening to 3 bedrooms, a sunken household room and formal residing space and eating space with backyard views.
In the principle residing space, there’s a sandstone fuel hearth and vaulted ceilings.
A secret trapdoor set within the eating space’s flooring opens as much as a big under-house wine cellar.
The kitchen is fitted with an island bench, pendant lighting, soft-close drawers and stainless-steel ASKO and Smeg home equipment, whereas the lavatory has a twin self-importance and freestanding claw-footed bathtub.
“We at all times beloved how the kitchen flowed into the lounge and into exterior,” Langbroek stated.
“It’s a enjoyable, straightforward circulation that one way or the other makes each social gathering magic.
“The youngsters could be exterior on the trampoline, the adults could be across the kitchen bench.”
Gold-coloured, floral-patterned wallpaper and blue carpet add a artistic contact to the principle bed room.
Kate Langbroek on the home’s veranda.
Treasured recollections of the home embody Christmases, birthday events and end-of-season
sports activities’ workforce catch-ups.
“We had my Dad’s eightieth right here, and a pal introduced us some sugar glass (stunt glass) so our eldest son served his grandpa a tray of drinks exterior on the granite loopy paving and pretended to journey they usually all flew and shattered,” Langbroek stated.
“My darling Dad practically misplaced his thoughts; our son and all people else beloved it.”
A gold swan-shaped water spout takes centre stage within the ensuite.
Fenagh Cottage has hosted a number of birthdays, Christmases and different particular events throughout the previous 16 years.
Double doorways from the principle bed room open out to the again yard the place there’s a in-built trampoline and rear terrace.
The room is options its personal walk-in wardrobe and ensuite.
Elsewhere, there’s a European laundry, hydronic heating, reverse-cycle cooling, intercom entry and off-street parking for 2 automobiles.
Mr Manning stated Mr Lewis and Langbroek beloved St Kilda and have upsized to a brand new, bigger residence close by – though, with a 500sq m block, Fenagh Cottage has fairly a considerable landholding in its personal proper.
He added that the attic may be used as a fifth bed room or one other residing house.
The home can be auctioned with $2.5m-$2.7m value hopes at 12.30pm on September 7.
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