Australian Country Homes

AT HOME WITH HERITAGE

Greg and Kerry Schneider were living in Sydney’s inner city, both with busy physiotherapy practices. She wanted to move to the northern beaches. He fancied a move closer to his tennis club in the eastern suburbs. The attendant focus on the property pages threw in the wildcard when Kerry spotted an ad for a farm at Braidwood in the NSW southern tablelands.

“So we went to have a look, with no more serious intent than it was a good excuse for a weekend in the country,” Kerry recalls. “But the moment I saw the Mona homestead, it was sold. My grandfather used to live

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