The Hedges has a country feel — despite its great suburban setting

THE HEDGES is an anomaly — it is as if you picked up a traditional character-full farmhouse, and dropped it right into to a settled city suburb.

But, the thing is, The Hedges is the real deal — it is the suburbs that are the recent pretenders and blow-ins.

This detached, two-storey Bishopstown house was the original local farmhouse, whose lands stretched down what is now the Melbourn Road in the city’s western reaches, now home to swathes of mid-1900s ‘modern’ homes.