Two landmark Werribee sites are on the market.
A Synnot Street property that was the site of Werribee’s first police station will go under the hammer this Saturday and is tipped to go for more than $500,000.
Constable Joseph Hodgson lived and worked out of the two-roomed police station when it opened in 1856.
As the area grew, the location of the police station became inconvenient and the station office was too small. The property was sold to a private buyer in 1938.
YPA Estate Agents Werribee director Bassam Tofali said the present owners had painstakingly renovated the two-bedroom, two-bathroom property, which sits on a 627-square-metre block.
“It is unique because it was a police house and it’s absolutely stunning,” Mr Tofali said.
“For a two-bedroom home, it’s on a large block and there is a planning permit approved for a sizeable extension on the home – for another bathroom, another living area, bedroom. It ticks a lot of boxes.”
Cottrell Street blocks
Nearby, two blocks spanning 4000 square metres on Cottrell Street are also for sale, carrying a $4.5 million price tag.
The site houses a joinery business, with concept plans showing potential for a mixture of ground-floor retail, first-floor office space and high-density residential apartments.
Steve Murphy from Brian Mark Real Estate, who is handling the sale, said the property had been on the market for a month and had generated interest from potential buyers.
Mr Murphy said Wyndham council had recently rezoned land in that area to Werribee activity centre zone 1, meaning developers can build as high as seven storeys at the front of the site and five storeys at the back.
“It’s part of the new zoning, part of the new Werribee,” Mr Murphy said.
