Location is good in that it is close to the centre of town but it’s also close to the main road and the noise of trucks disturbs the peace during the day and night.
The bathroom and 2 main bedrooms are beautifully decorated but the 3rd bedroom is small and plain and 4th is completely detached out the back of the garden with no access to its own facilities. I thought it was a shed at first. This could be an issue when needing the toilet/bathroom overnight as you need to walk through the garden to the main house. The floor in the 4th bedroom is on quite an angle and could pose a fall hazard to an unsteady guest. I was afraid the boards may be rotten under the carpet.
The front garden is gorgeous in flower but the backyard was in dire need of a mow. It is unkept.
The kitchen was spacious and had all the essentials. The timber bench is lovely. A few cockroaches were sighted in the cupboards, but I suppose you expect that in the bush. There was some cereal left on the floor from previous guests.
The hearth had lots of damage when we arrived in that many of the tiles were cracked. A guest of mine stood on the hearth and the broken tile subsided, revealing a space below the tiles of about 4cm depth. A guest should be able to stand on a hearth without fear of causing damage. The host is seeking the replacement of the entire hearth at my expense, when the only change in my occupation was that the tile pieces descended to a lower level in ordinary use. This is not damage but a sign of a deteriorating property. Evidence of earlier cracks has been submitted.
All in all a nice cottage that needs some work.