The Reserve & Co. is proud to present: Iona Park, a grand country estate on ninety acres of working farmland in the Southern Highlands, minutes from Moss Vale. This is a real working farm, home to horses, cattle and chickens, with paddocks running out to open country.
The house opens onto a north-facing terrace, a solar-heated pool and two full-size clay tennis courts. Eight bedrooms sleep up to twenty-one, with room for the whole group to gather for weekends and country celebrations.
The space
There are houses, and then there are places that hold you. Iona Park is the second kind.
The estate sits on ninety acres of working farmland, and the farm is the first thing you notice. Around thirty horses graze the paddocks on agistment, with cattle and chickens across the property and open country in every direction. You are staying on a real working farm, with all the calm that brings.
You arrive through cast-iron gates and along a private drive to a grand foyer and curved stair. The home is built for gathering. One wing holds a relaxed open-plan living and dining room warmed by a slow-combustion fire, a generous gas kitchen, and a billiard room, all opening to a north-facing alfresco terrace. The other is the formal side of the house, with an open fire, a library and a theatre room for quieter hours. Upstairs, the master opens to a balcony over the countryside. In all, eight bedrooms and five bathrooms sleep up to twenty-two.
Outside, a trellis walk leads to a solar-heated pool, two full-size clay tennis courts, mature gardens, a firepit and a barbecue. Long days outdoors, tennis in the afternoon, and the fire to gather around once the sun is down. In the cooler months the house turns inward, with two fireplaces and ducted heating throughout.
Guest access
Guests have the whole house and its gardens, the pool, the tennis courts and the grounds. A caretaker lives privately on site in a separate dwelling near the stables, behind the pool, with its own driveway. They keep to themselves and will not interrupt your stay; they are simply part of how an estate of this size is kept running well. The working paddocks and animals are best enjoyed from the lawns rather than entered, though a private farm showing or a feeding of the animals can be arranged on request.
Other things to note
A few practical notes, so your stay is easy from the first moment.
Check-in is from 2pm by self-arrival, and checkout is at 12pm.
This is a much-loved family estate, and we ask that it is treated as one. No parties or events without prior arrangement.
Unfortunately the property is not suited to pets, due to the working nature of the farm.
For families with young children, please note there is an open dam between the house and the tennis courts, and livestock paddocks best admired from a distance. The grounds reward exploring, with a little awareness in the longer grass and around the water.
A smart TV is in the main living room, with a second television in a downstairs bedroom.
Registration Details
PID-STRA-59274
