Inside Victoria’s strangest properties with extraordinary former lives

Listicle David – for herald sun real estate Victorians can currently buy properties with a jail cell, bank vault, old classroom or underground pub cellar if a standard house feels too ordinary. The oddball crop ranges from a 31sq m former bootmaker’s shop in Ascot Vale to a $1m post office split into three apartments. Several still contain unmistakeable relics of their previous lives, including an original bank safe, police lockup and old school desk. RELATED: Ex-mayor Darryn Lyons offloads waterfront villa Chris and Lauren Tarrant’s Toorak mansion revealed New milestone for Myer family’s $105m Toorak mansion VIOLET TOWN: BANK WITH WALK-IN VAULT The more than 120-year-old former bank at 30 Cowslip St, Violet Town, still retains its original walk-in vault and safe. A more than 120-year-old former Violet Town bank is for sale with its original vault and safe still inside. The four-bedroom property at 30 Cowslip St is priced at $750,000-$820,000 AWN Livestock & Property agent Ashton Still said the vault remained “very intact”. “It’s like a walk-in robe, I suppose,” Mr Still said. “Not a big one, but a decent-sized one.” He described the property as “one of a kind”. The four-bedroo...