At 17 Charlotte Street in Bangalow, the tranquillity is almost perfect, thank you very much. This place is a more holistic rural compound, not just a pretty country property.

"Every time we come here, we are blown away," says Christian Sergiacomi of Pacifico Real Estate." It's a wonderland, a kind of, 'Wait there's more!' The place."

Byron, the very lovely, stylishly renovated original mansion, is connected by a staircase to the striking, new black barn-shaped extension below. "You float between these areas and it's completely transformed," says Sergiacomi. "You're like 'Wow! What is this place?

An adjacent reclaimed timber, detached barn is a sublime country haven with a loft bedroom and attached garage.

On the ranch, a studio/workshop/wellness space occupies its own deck off the pool on the edge of the bright horizon.

The views are endless.