28-28A Onkaparinga Valley Road, Charleston, SA 5244 - More Details
$1,450,000 - $1,590,000
When a mid-century charmer becomes a multi-dimensional performer - a unique mix of home, income, and open book opportunity in a pivotal position along Charleston's scenic main strip.
As a refurbished all-rounder with untold value, rare flexibility, and up to four bedrooms up its sleeve, it's a property with purpose - and one already a step ahead of your plans.
The street-facing shopfront serves as the town post office, already paying its way. Next door, the one-bedroom studio home - formerly a bookshop and café – returns $400 a week with a tenant in place until October.
Rent out the attached three-bedroom home and enjoy bigger returns - for the entrepreneur, home business or family seeking supplementary income, it's a proposition that's already proven its ability to evolve.
With discreet, separate entry, the main home captures all the warmth of its era: 3m ceilings, sash windows, polished timber floors, and a large living room anchored by a stone-mantled fireplace.
A lifestyle that lets you exist in the quiet shadows of the shopfront.
The eat-in kitchen is a sunlit flashback to mid-century style. The three newly carpeted bedrooms share a vintage-modern bathroom, while the entire wing benefits from the central combustion fire.
Outside, it's 100 per cent country.
Dotted with fruit trees, lawns, shade, a chicken coop and run, its sweeping green space says explore a mini-orchard - or expand your veggie repertoire - on a 1723sqm landholding with credentials unmatched.
A paved, undercover entertaining zone doubles as an additional carport against driveway access to an open rear garage and a separate studio/workshop – infinitely rewarding as an office, creative space, or retreat.
As for the self-sufficient front studio, it's joined via a central storeroom, which means it can become part of the home or remain as is - an integral money-spinner in a country town with plenty of tourist traffic.
Ride the Amy Gillett Bikeway, duck out for a pub meal and an ale, nip into Woodside or Lobethal in minutes, or hit the north-eastern suburbs (via TTP) in around 35.
Relax into the lifestyle, lease the lot, or run a business while you live on site – it's called incredible diversification from a rare and charming Charleston achiever.
The double-brick 3-bedroom 1960s home:
3m ceilings
Discreet separate entry to the post office
3 newly carpeted bedrooms, 2 with built-in robes
Central combustion fire
Undercover outdoor entertaining (or additional carport parking)
Gated vehicle access to a rear open garage
Rear studio/workshop – adaptable as an office, gym or retreat
Sweeping backyard features fruit trees, lawns, shade, a chook house and chook run
Concrete rainwater tank – garden use only, not plumbed
Mains water
Electric HWS
The Street-Facing 1-Bedroom Studio:
Currently leased, returning $400pw until October 2026
Separate front verandah entry point, with internal storeroom connection
Polished pine floors, whitewashed throughout
Library zone + a large open plan lounge
Open plan kitchen/meals with a 4-burner gas cooktop, Bellini oven
Generous central bedroom, carpeted, with a ceiling fan and downlights
Split system R/C air conditioning
Spacious, combined modern laundry/bathroom
Gas HWS
The Post Office:
Commercial lease earns $3,202pm, opening 2 hours a day (or run yourself), until March 2027 at the moment.
PO boxes earn $11,200pa (approx. 160 PO Boxes)
Property Information:
Title Reference: 5230/77
Zoning: Township
Year Built: 1961
Council Rates: $1,017.26 per annum
Water Rates: $82.30 per quarter
Adcock Real Estate - RLA66526
Jake Adcock 0432 988 464
Andrew Adcock 0418 816 874
Nikki Seppelt 0437 658 067
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- Type
- House
- Bedrooms
- 4
- Bathrooms
- 2
- Parkings
- 2
- Area
- 1,720 m²
