The five-bedroom house neighbours farmland and is walking distance to Point Lonsdale Back Beach.
Award-winning filmmaker and author Peter Dickson is preparing to close the chapter on a Point Lonsdale residence that’s supported a lot of his recent creative endeavours.
Dickson has listed the family’s five-bedroom, two-storey Milora Court home built in 2005.
The filmmaker’s most recent films includes 1970, The Final Story a documentary on one of the most famous grand finals in VFL-AFL history, Dare to Hope – The Paul Dear Story and The Ripple Effect, along with books including He Was My Brother, written following the death of brother Rob Dickson – a former Hawthorn player, Australian Survivor winner and his filmmaking partner – in a car crash in 2009.
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Dickson said his family made a sea-change to Point Lonsdale, where another brother constructed the five-bedroom home on a 675sq m irregular shaped block.
“It’s a beautiful, big place. I was going to live there and commute. But once Rob died, with filmmaking and everything I didn’t have him in Melbourne any more, so I move back to Melbourne,” Dickson said.
“It’s been one of those houses that has a real connection to us for a lot of reasons. It’s the place where I wrote the book about him and where a lot of my documentaries were born.”
A gas log fire sits at the heart of the main open living zone where sliding glass doors connect to the back yard.
The modern kitchen has stainless steel appliances and huge bench space.
It’s not only been a creative space, but a place where Dickson’s family has since enjoyed weekends and holidays in the home close to Point Lonsdale’s Back Beach.
“It’s beautiful. It’s such a retreat and because of the how Point Lonsdale is set out, it’s kind of a little hub,” Dickson said.
“We love it down there and where that place is positioned, it’s near the dunes, and it’s a really beautiful court.”
Point Lonsdale also provided the backdrop as fictional Bay Heads for his latest work, The Embedded Lie, a book he’s also trying to turn into a film.
Award-winning filmmaker Peter Dickson said he wrote two books and developed several films at the Point Lonsdale home. Picture: David Caird
The home is located in a leafy part of the coastal Bellarine Peninsula town.
“It’s about friends at this fictional place called Bay Heads – which is actually Point Lonsdale,” Dickson said.
“They have a round of golf and call it the Masters Eight, and they catch up once a year and that’s been going for over 30 odd years. I actually wrote most of that in that house, based on Point Lonsdale.”
Kerleys Coastal agent Damian Cayzer, who has listed the five-bedroom residence with price hopes from $2.15m to $2.35m, describes the position as arguable the best corner of town, with the sound of waves rolling onto the Back Beach, peaceful neighbouring farmland, and an easy walk to Lonsdale Links.
The 675sq m property allows for plenty of outdoor space in the back yard.
The five-bedroom house has a dedicated home office.
The five-bedroom, three-bedroom house offers three separate living zones and a dedicated home office.
There’s polished timber floors, a gas log fire in the main living zone and sliding doors opens to the deep backyard.
Four bedrooms upstairs surround a central lounge area that opens to balconies overlooking the east and west side of the property.
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