Cloudbreaker is a luxury off-grid acreage featuring an award-winning glass bathhouse, high-earning tiny home, and spectacular Kangaroo Valley views. Photos: Belle Property.
High on the Beaumont escarpment, 1045d Moss Vale Road is a breathtaking 44.52-hectare estate of native rainforest, pristine creeks and open grazing country. Its moniker, Cloudbreaker, could not be more apt.
“Kangaroo Valley mornings usually come with cloud height, and anyone who sits above it looks down to the village still in the clouds, while they’re above in the sunshine,” Belle Property’s Nick Dale says. “Cloudbreaker very proudly sits atop those clouds.”
Built for true off-grid living with sweeping views across the Kangaroo Valley hinterland, the property feels like a private sanctuary. Its farm gates open to a winding drive past fenced paddocks, a large dam and mature gardens before revealing the centrepiece: an architecturally striking home clad in raw timber that has weathered into harmony with the surrounding eucalypts.
Inside, the light-filled interiors feature warm oak floors, statement pendants and chandeliers by Melbourne designer Christopher Boots, light-diffusing skylights and soaring double-glazed bi-fold doors. Opening at both ends of the home, these stacking doors capture a delicious cross-breeze in summer and seamlessly connect the living spaces to the surrounding wilderness.
The indisputable heart of the home is the open-plan kitchen, dining and lounge area.
Winters can be spent gathered about the centrepiece with a bottle of wine — a Cheminees Philippe slow-combustion fireplace elevated on a granite bench.
“That fireplace is really gorgeous, and anchors the entire space,” Nick says.
All Calacatta marble, custom soft-close cabinetry and fitted with SMEG appliances, the kitchen stretches along one wall.
The residence offers four generously proportioned bedrooms, one anchored in each corner for maximum privacy.
They share a central bathroom also finished in Calacatta marble, featuring heated floors, mirrored cabinetry and louvred windows that open the shower to the lush greenery outside.
Just beyond, a paved terrace commands dramatic views of the valley below.
“That would be an absolute cracking spot for a pool overlooking the valley,” Nick notes.
Below ground, the reinforced-concrete lower floor serves dual roles: as a multi-use lifestyle space hosting a laundry, workshop, games room and gym, and as the engine room for the estate’s self-sufficiency. Here, a 52-panel solar array feeds four SMA inverters and two BYD battery storage systems, backed by an ABLE 8kVA diesel generator. Water needs are met by two 22,500-litre rainwater tanks with Puretec UV filtration.
“There is a power pole about 50 metres from the house if you wanted to pull grid power on. But honestly, the solar system is state-of-the-art, so there’s absolutely no need,” Nick says. “You’ve also plenty of your own water, and there’s also an agreement with a neighbour for a spring-fed supply should it be needed.”
The ‘bathroom in the bush’ was the winner of the 2019 NAWIC Hassell Award for Innovation in Design and named Best Outdoor Room in Australian House & Garden’s Top 50 Rooms.
Further along the forested ridgeline lies one of the property’s most famous features, the Kangaroo Valley Outhouse. Designed by Madeleine Blanchfield Architects as a ‘bathroom in the bush’, this one-way mirrored bathhouse reflects the surrounding rainforest by day while offering uninterrupted canopy views from a deep, freestanding tub inside.
“It’s been featured in Vogue and BMW Magazine, and is definitely one of the defining features of the property,” Nick says. “You can see out, but no one can see in. ”
The bathhouse serves a secluded tiny home currently operating as a high-performing Airbnb.
“Typically, a one-bedroom rental down there will bring in around $60,000 a year, but this one was doing $140,000,” Nick says.
On the grounds, functional lifestyle features include a fenced herb garden, terraced vegetable beds, a greenhouse and a large storage shed. Walking trails branch out from the main homestead, leading down through rainforest and along creeks to a seasonal waterfall, while open grazing paddocks spread across the wider acreage.
Despite its ultimate seclusion, Kangaroo Valley Village is just 10 to 15 minutes away, and the South Coast beaches are within a 40-minute drive.
“Being on the Berry side of Kangaroo Valley, it saves you that extra 20 to 30 minutes from Sydney on a weekend,” Nick says. “Driving past the turnoff you think there’s nothing but mountain there. It’s like a completely self-contained oasis on the mountain you would never know was there.”
The price guide on this remarkable home is $4,200,000.
For more information on 1045d Moss Vale Road, Beaumont, contact Belle Property’s Nick Dale on 0419 425 166.
