HIDDEN DEPTHS
When Robyn and John Oliver bought Clear View in the Adelaide Hills, they became not just the eighth family to own the property, but also the custodians of a century-long tradition of owners who were not afraid to get their hands dirty.
The Olivers bought the three-quarter-acre block with its main residence and guest cottage in 2010 after only one inspection. “I’d surreptitiously been looking for a few years for a place in the Hills,” Robyn explains. “I found it on the net on Easter Monday; we inspected that day and by the Friday we’d bought it. I must admit, there was a bit of a feeling of ‘what have we done’ but we moved in by June and then the work began.”
Although she says the block had been maintained through the years and always had
