Custom architect-designed home overlooking Swan Bay listed for $3.5m

5 Dod St, Queenscliff is on the market for $3.5m to $3.7m. After a year-long search for a dream coastal home site, Greg and Jacinta Costello hit the jackpot when they finally found a Queenscliff property overlooking Swan Bay. The 1000sq m block with a 1980s house ticked all their boxes, offering both water views and a north-facing aspect within walking distance of a shopping hub. But, with the couple in their 70s, it was more land they wanted to maintain. RELATED: Historic Queenscliff vicarage finally finds a buyer Storybook Otways property listed with huge catch Trophy home raises record price for Geelong So they decided to subdivide and commission two custom architect-designed homes, including one for themselves, to share in the spoils of the quiet waterfront location. “We wanted to protect the integrity of what we were building and we wanted to complement it with a house of a similar quality next door, still with a view, but a different design and a different look from the outside,” Mr Costello said. “I think we’ve achieved that.” They worked with JAK Architecture and Heycon Constructions to deliver the impressive homes, which were three years in the making. A cast iron French w...