Musk · Victoria · Central Highlands

Stonewalls
Musk

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The Estate

Detail.
Craft.
Time out.

There are places you visit, and places that stay with you. Stonewalls Musk is the latter — a 25-acre private estate in Victoria's Central Highlands where every surface, every view, every quiet hour has been considered with extraordinary care.

Designed by award-winning architects Tandem Studio and shaped over 25 years by artist Andrew O'Brien, Stonewalls is widely regarded as Australia's most luxurious farm stay. Not because of its scale — but because of its depth. The stone walls, the botanic gardens, the art, the silence. You'll feel it the moment you arrive.

01

The Detail

Every material chosen by hand. Stone from the property. Timber from reclaimed barns. Objects collected over decades of travel and obsessive looking.

02

The Craft

Designed by Tandem Studio architects. Artworks by Andrew O'Brien. Gardens planted for beauty in every season. Nothing here is incidental.

03

The Time Out

No itinerary. No agenda. Wander the gardens, light the fire, open a bottle, read a book. This is what timeout feels like when it's done properly.

01 / 05The Craft

Handcrafted.Down to the last stone.

Every surface at Stonewalls has been touched by hand. Stone hauled from the property. Timber from reclaimed barns. A place built not by contractors but by an artist who couldn't stop refining.

Photography — Amber Gardener

02 / 05The Vision

With anartist's eye.

Andrew O'Brien has spent a lifetime looking — at colour, at light, at the way a room holds you. Stonewalls is what happens when that way of seeing becomes a place to stay. Every window is a painting. Every view is deliberate.

Photography — Amber Gardener

03 / 05The Welcome

With youin mind.

The wood is already split. The fire already laid. The wine chosen, the books stacked beside the chair you haven't found yet. Stonewalls anticipates the things you didn't know to ask for.

Photography — Amber Gardener

04 / 05The Time Out

Slow down.You're here now.

No itinerary. No agenda. No particular place to be. Twenty-five acres of botanic gardens, five minutes from Daylesford, and nothing to do but remember what stillness feels like.

Photography — Amber Gardener

05 / 05The Evening

Open a bottle.The night is yours.

The vines are heavy with summer. Two glasses wait on the barrel. The light is doing something extraordinary and nobody is in a hurry. This is the part of the day Stonewalls was made for.

Photography — Amber Gardener
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Accommodation

Two villas.
One extraordinary estate.

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Accommodation

The
Barn

A converted stone and timber barn — soaring A-frame ceilings, loft bedroom, wood fire, and floor-to-ceiling steel windows that frame the botanic gardens like a living painting.

From $270 AUD / night

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Accommodation

The
Retreat

A private sanctuary nestled within the gardens — secluded, serene, and intimate. Designed for those who want to disappear completely into the landscape.

From $220 AUD / night

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Stonewalls garden — the reflecting pond

The Gardens

25 acres of
designed landscape

Designed by award-winning Tandem Studio, the botanic gardens at Stonewalls are unlike anything else in regional Victoria. Stone walls frame rooms of plants. A reflecting pond mirrors the sky. Avenues of deciduous trees turn gold in autumn, bare in winter, revealing the architecture of the estate in entirely different light.

25 Acres of private botanic gardens,
designed by Tandem Studio architects
5+ Years in the making — conceived,
planted and nurtured by Andrew O'Brien
4 Distinct seasonal experiences —
each more beautiful than the last

Getting Here

Find us
in the valley.

Stonewalls Musk sits on the Daylesford–Trentham Road, ninety minutes from Melbourne and a few minutes from Daylesford itself — close enough to walk to a cellar door, far enough to hear nothing but birdsong.

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