66 Head Road, Hunua, Franklin District

Some properties you inspect. This one you experience.

From the moment the roofline appears through the bush at the end of the driveway, something shifts. There is a presence to this place that photographs hint at but cannot fully capture. To understand what 66 Head Road really is, you need to stand in it, walk it, and let it settle around you.

Set well back from the road on just over ten hectares of mixed bush and grazing land, this is a property that has been lived in, loved, and carefully shaped over many years. The native planting is established and purposeful. The walking tracks wind through sheltered bush. The orchard produces. The land has the quiet confidence of somewhere that has been properly looked after.

At the centre of it all is a homestead that stops you in your tracks.

Built to last and designed to be genuinely lived in, the home wraps around you from the moment you step through the door. Exposed timber beams cross the ceiling above you. Brick feature walls carry warmth through every room. A live-edge timber dining table sits beneath the beams like it has always belonged there, large enough for the whole family and then some. Natural light moves through the space at its own pace, and the result is a home that feels solid, warm, and completely at ease with itself.

The kitchen sits at the heart of everything, as it should. Solid timber benchtops, a wood-burning range, a walk-in pantry, and casual seating that turns it into the natural gathering point for morning coffees, homework, and the kind of unhurried meals that only happen when there is enough room for everyone. Multiple living areas give the family space to spread out, to find quiet corners, or to come together when the occasion calls for it.

Accommodation is thoughtfully arranged across two levels. The main bedroom is privately positioned with its own ensuite and an elevated outlook over the property. Two further bedrooms upstairs share a Jack-and-Jill bathroom, well suited to children or teenagers. Downstairs, a fourth bedroom with its own lounge and bathroom offers the independence that extended family, older children, or long-stay guests need without any awkwardness about it.

The wrap-around verandah is where the inside and outside quietly negotiate. Sheltered and generous, it becomes an extension of the home through every season. Meals drift out here. Kids play under it in the rain. Evenings slow down on it in summer. It is one of those spaces that earns its place in the daily rhythm of a household very quickly.

Beyond the house, the property keeps delivering. Solar power in place. Ample garaging. Stock facilities for those who want to run animals. Open paddocks, a freshwater pond, streamside camping spots, and two small cabins that can be whatever you need them

to be. A bunkhouse for children, a creative retreat, a sleepout for guests. The bush walks start from the edge of the garden and carry on as far as you want to go within the property.

This is not a property for buyers looking for something finished and handed to them. It is for families who want somewhere with genuine character, real space, and the kind of outdoor freedom that is genuinely hard to find this close to Auckland. A place to put down roots. A place where children grow up with room to roam and parents finally have room to breathe.

Properties like this do not come to market often. When they do, the people who move quickly are the ones who end up calling it home.

Come and see it for yourself. I am confident it will leave an impression.

To arrange a private viewing, get in touch with me, Paul Voorburg, at Bayleys Pukekohe.