A stately Georgian-style home set on 18 picturesque hectares (45 acres) in highly sought after Mount Macedon only 40 minutes from Melbourne CBD and 35 minutes from the Airport. Pepperell Farm offers you an unprecedented country lifestyle with unlimited income streams from AirBnB, Box Office Film Locations Bookings, Advertising and Horse Agistment. Also, the potential for a Residential Hotel, Restaurant or Wedding Reception venue (STCA). Impressive in size, design and functionality, this five-bedroom and 4.5-bathroom (all with en-suite) luxury home melds Georgian elegance with contemporary amenities. Entertaining is seamless with a fully-equipped kitchen with an AGA stove and butlers pantry, office, home theatre, four lounge and dining areas, walk-down wine cellar, billiards/games room and conservatory. Exquisite formal living areas with Chiminees Philippe ducted fireplace (four fireplaces in total), hydronic heating, reverse cycle air conditioning, irrigated lawn and garden, and six car garaging. Spacious terraces provide panoramic views of Mount Macedon across the 100 year old oaks, elms, and maples. The estate also comes with a fully-equipped three-bedroom manager’s residence, which includes under floor gas heating, slow combustion fire and reverse cycle air-conditioning. Set in a beautiful low maintenance native garden. Your equestrian needs are taken care of, including a full-size indoor arena, stables, an indoor lunging arena, tack rooms, wash bays, feed room, riders retreat with laundry and bathroom plus a riding track. All paddocks boast post and rail fencing or Horserail with self waterers enjoying shade from large timber shelter sheds or avenues of elms and oak trees. Pepperell Farm includes over 130 oaks and elms, a vegetable patch/orchard, nuttery, silver birch forest, stands of sequoias, hedging wrapping around the house and leading to the vegetable patch, designer chicken house with fox proof fencing. Water abounds with magnificent lake, picturesque jetty, permanent creek and town water. If you wish to indulge in a country estate lifestyle but value proximity to the city, this is the rural retreat you’ve been searching for.