Coromandel Lifestyle Village

Wayne and Kathryn Besley purchased the Colonial Cottages Motel in 2021 as they could see it would make a perfect retirement village. The Communal area Villa was built around 1895 for Captain Albert Argall, he was the first of a succession of mine managers to live here. In 1937 the Coromandel Hospital Board bought the house to use as the medical superintendent’s residence. It became a motel in the late 1970’s. Now Wayne and his team of builders have transformed it again.
The villa is completely renovated with new piles, new carpet, new kitchen and dining area and an extension made for the toilet block – all done to match this heritage building. To conform to regulations for community spaces, we removed the two brick chimneys and rebuilt them using fiberglass and slices of the original bricks. The fireplaces now look exactly the same, but are structurally safe. Every care has gone into this project, with no expense spared on getting this building perfect and fit for another 100 years or so.
This villa is going to be the communal area for residents to interact together and spread out if they have family over. There is a modern kitchen, cosey games room, library, lounge, bathroom and large room complete with chandeliers that we called the ballroom – it has a huge 86 inch TV in it which residents can watch sport on, plus the room can be used for residents meetings. Around the villa there is 2 large decks and 3 / 6 burner BBQs.
We have 2 x 2 bedroom units complete These were the former motel cottages and have all been completely renovated, insulated, painted, and new appliances. It is plenty spacious enough to live in with open plan kitchen/lounge, two bedrooms, a shower room and a carport out the back door. Six of these cottages face each other across a tidy lawn. There are also two one-bedroom cottages which will be renovated, plus we are building five more new two-bedroom cottages on the site. The village is small enough to be personal so you don't end up being one of the great masses in the larger villages
But that’s not all! There is also a residents hobby room and workshop area, and at the back of the section there will be room to park motorhomes, caravans and boats, and grow some veggies or fillet the fish.
The Village is well protected from adverse weather events as with all the storms and rain that’s occurred this year we have had no flooding and only lost a small branch off one tree during cyclone Gabriel.
As a retirement village, owners will need to be at least 65 years old. The village will have an on-site manager during normal weekly working hours. The first two renovated two-bedroom cottages are now on the market. More will follow, and the whole site is expected to be completed in 2024. Please register your interest now.