24 Carroll Street, North Melbourne.

A true piece of North Melbourne history with the best of the city fringe at its disposal, this timeless Victorian offers a lifestyle of instant ease and comfort with stirring scope to reimagine high on prestigious Hotham Hill. With its Hawthorn-brick street stance as alluring as when crafted over 130 years ago, interiors beyond weave classical charm into a single-storey layout perfect for downsizers, professionals, and those seeking part-time city base. In its current, comfortable state, the home's two large bedrooms are accompanied by robes and a tidy bathroom with a combined bath/shower, while broad living, dining, and kitchen areas step through a skylit back corridor to a deep yard that's just as ideal for entertaining as it is optimising rear lane frontage and parking securely off-street. Augmented further with a cellar laundry/storeroom, scattered skylights, zoning for University High, and Pleasance Gardens only a handful of doors away, it's no more than steps to Royal Park's serene expanses, Parkville's major hospitals, the University of Melbourne, two train stations, and trams reaching the CBD in no time, along with the cuisine, coffee, and nightlife of an inner-city icon in Errol Street.