Styled like a boutique hotel, this house is situated in a quiet cul de sac on the fringe of inner-city Sydney and offers guests maximum comfort and plenty of design inspiration. The Milroy is your home away from home, decked in art, vintage and new designer pieces, with original character, and lots of playful colour.
With multiple living areas and flexible bed configurations, this house is suited to groups and families, and is walking distance to parklands and the local shopping precinct.
The Milroy showcases modern design with a nod to the home’s history as a residence built in the 1940s for the manager of a local glass factory. The factory has long gone, but many of the home’s original features have been preserved including the fireplace, tallow wood floors, French windows and doors and vintage shutters.
Enter via a tree-lined driveway and you will be greeted at the doorstep by a pair of concrete lions, a homage to the Italianate influence on a suburb which from the late 1940s hosted new Mediterranean migrants.
The foyer of the house is decorated in more cats, with original and iconic Gucci tiger wallpaper. The Milroy has multiple living spaces including a TV room with French doors that open to the garden, a cosy lounge with a fireplace and library, as well as a sunroom with banquette next to the kitchen. There is also a more formal dining area. Both eating areas seat 8 people. The house has a fully fitted kitchen with every modern convenience and an abundance of crockery and glassware for large groups to comfortably prepare and enjoy home cooked meals.
The Milroy is in a special pocket of Kensington that is home to mostly houses, not apartments, and is not a traffic thoroughfare. There is plenty of unlimited free parking on the street, so guests with more than one car can be accommodated without further expense or inconvenience.
The Milroy is a three bedroom house with two bathrooms and an extra toilet next to the laundry which is outside the main house. Two of the three bedrooms can be configured as either king beds or twin singles. The third bedroom has a king bed. One of the king/twin bedrooms has an ensuite. The office can accommodate up to three people.
The garden has a dining table and chairs and a gas BBQ. Towards the back of the garden is a pond with gold fish. Please advise if you are bringing children under the age of five so we can take measures to secure the pond before your arrival.
In walking distance is East Village shopping precinct which has a large Coles supermarket, an award winning butcher, fishmonger, wine cellar, bakery and cafes. Moore Park and Centennial Park are a walk away and there are multiple dog-friendly off-leash parks in the neighbourhood. The Sydney Cricket ground, Fox Studios, and The Hordern at the Entertainment Quarter are also walking distance where you will also find movie theatres and restaurants. It’s possible to walk to Randwick Racecourse and the house is a ten minute walk to the Kensington Light Rail station where the tram can take you to the central Sydney business district in around 30 minutes.
The Milroy is also close to Surry Hills and Redfern, where you’ll find some of Sydney’s best restaurants and bars. Other nearby attractions include: Bondi Beach (8.8km), Clovelly Beach (6km), Westfield Bondi Junction (6.4km), Sydney Opera House (6.3km) and Queen Victoria Building (5.7km).

Bedrooms
Bedroom 1 -King Bed with ensuite. Can be made into 2 x king singles
Bedroom 2 - King bed
Bedroom 3 - 2 x king singles but can be made into a king