Grand Designs Australia featured Warburton Arch House hits the market for $1.6m

33 Brett Rd, Warburton. Picture: Brad Lowe. The Warburton Arch House is an architect-designed home on an equally impressive property overlooking the native forest of the Upper Yarra Valley that featured on Grand Designs Australia. Within the 1.39ha grounds, you will find a separate cottage, known as “Lily Pad”, cantilevered over a billabong. It is currently rented out and is a guest favourite on Airbnb. Before it took its current form, when the vendors Tyronne Jaspers and Hailey Cavill-Jaspers first viewed the property in 2012 at 33 Brett Rd, many other potential buyers had put it in the “too hard basket.” RELATED: Zagame family cut $2.3m from Sorrento price ‘Hard out there’: Premiership Tiger reveals post-AFL life AFL great Gary Ablett Jr lists custom Surf Coast home “When I first saw it, I have to admit I couldn’t quite see what Tyrone saw. The entrance was a narrow deer track over a dam so we couldn’t even drive in,” Cavill-Jaspers says. “The block was overgrown with blackberry bushes – it clearly hadn’t seen much love for years – and I just saw one challenge after another. But Tyrone said, ‘Yes, but that will deter others!’” Trusting her husband’s vision and six months of hard ...