Before you step inside this substantial brick home take a drive along Lake Ridge Drive. - just a minute away from the highway and a couple of minutes from Kew village centre. Open the car windows. It's quiet. Homes along this Drive enjoy the rural lifestyle but residents are just ten minutes' to beaches, twenty minutes' to Port Macquarie. Currently set up with four bedrooms, formal dining, study and large living area. But it could easily be a five-bedroom home, with a games room/media room and home office. The owner is reluctantly committed to moving but knows this is home that can easily be re-imagined and modernised to suit the new owners' lifestyle. This is already a comfortable home ready for updating.

- Living: large lounge with sliding doors to extensive covered outdoor entertaining area. Formal dining room, air conditioning, wood fire, ceiling fans in all rooms.

- Kitchen / dining: plenty of space and storage, opens to outdoor dining and the pool.

- Bedrooms / bathrooms: five bedrooms, main with ensuite and walk-in robe; main bathroom with bath and shower and separate toilet.

- Outdoor: set in 3 1/2 acres incorporating spectacular mature palm trees, a 12 metre heated pool (extensive roof solar system 8.7kw), spa and large covered cabana. Side access to 4 car garage and 4 vehicle carport plus ample space for boat/caravan. It has its own dam with pump irrigation to water the mature gardens.

- Location: 1 minute drive to highway, 2 minutes to Kew village, 3 minutes to a Woolworths, shops and cafés, 7 minutes to Laurieton, 10 minutes to beaches, 20 minutes to Port Macquarie. Pre-school, secondary and high school all within a short drive. Close to most things - far away from the 'bustle'.