4 Bedroom house · 54 Short Street, Bendigo

Cobb & Co House

A very large heritage house with a retro streak — comfortable, fun, and big enough to sleep ten with space to spare. The Sacred Heart Cathedral sits behind the verandah, and the Ulumbarra Theatre is a walk away.

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Sleeps: Up to 10
Bedrooms: 4
Bathrooms: 3
Outdoor: BBQ area

The house

Room for everyone — and room to get away from everyone.

Booking a 4 bedroom, 3 bathroom home in Bendigo's CBD is a rare thing, and this one is rarer still: high ceilings, original cast-iron fireplaces, stained glass above the doors, and a long hallway that runs the length of the place. It has been furnished with a sense of humour rather than a colour scheme, which is exactly why people come back.

There's a full kitchen, a large dining and lounge area, an outdoor space with a BBQ, and a proper laundry with a washer, dryer and ironing board — the detail that separates a house you can actually live in for a week from a house you're camping in.

And because it's us rather than a platform, we leave a coffee pod machine stocked with coffee and hot chocolate pods, and long-life milk in the fridge, so you can ponder the day before anyone has to go out for supplies. Free Wi-Fi is included, and all linen and towels are provided.

Full kitchen
Large dining & lounge
Outdoor BBQ
Laundry, dryer & iron
Coffee pod machine
Free Wi-Fi
Linen & towels supplied

Living room at Cobb & Co House with a long brown leather sofa, a white wire coffee table holding magnolia stems, an original grey cast-iron fireplace and a large television mounted above the mantel

Who sleeps where

Four bedrooms, laid out plainly.

Bookings for up to ten people give you access to all four bedrooms and the living area. If there are fewer of you, five guests can have a bedroom each with room to spare.

Bedding configuration at Cobb & Co House
Bedroom	Beds	Bathroom	Sleeps
Bedroom one	1 king bed	Private ensuite	2
Bedroom two	1 queen bed	Private ensuite	2
Bedroom three	1 queen bed	Shared bathroom	2
Bedroom four	1 queen bed plus 2 single beds	Shared bathroom	4
Living area	Lounge seating and television	—	—

Bringing more than ten? Configurations can be flexible — tell us the group size when you enquire, and we'll tell you honestly what works.

Groups & occasions

One house beats four motel rooms. Every time.

There's a particular kind of trip where everyone ends up in the kitchen at 11pm, and a motel corridor can't give you that. This house can.

Weddings & wedding parties

Get everyone ready under one roof, in the middle of town, with three bathrooms and a kitchen that can handle breakfast for ten.

Reunions & milestone birthdays

Extended family, old friends, a significant birthday. Everyone gets a bed and nobody gets a bill for four separate rooms.

Festival weekends

Writers Festival, a run of shows at the Ulumbarra, a major exhibition at the gallery. Walk home together afterwards and keep talking about it.

Cooking for a crowd

A full kitchen, a large dining area and a BBQ outside. Far cheaper than ten dinners out, and considerably more fun.

Teams on a project

Corporate bookings run in 14-day blocks. Put the whole crew in one house rather than scattering them across town.

Visiting family in town

One guest booked the house for a big family get-together — ten people up to visit family in Bendigo, close to town, with plenty of parking. That's exactly what this house is for.

Photographs

Walk through the house.

Bedrooms, bathrooms, the lounge, the kitchen and the laundry — all of it photographed in the actual house at 54 Short Street.

The main lounge at Cobb & Co House with a large brown leather modular sofa, cream and charcoal cushions, a white wire side table and two tall sash windows looking onto greenery — The main lounge, with the tall original sash windows.

Open-plan kitchen and dining at Cobb & Co House with a glass dining table and six chairs, white cabinetry, freestanding fridge and a window above the sink — The kitchen, open to the dining table.

Glass dining table set with white blossom in a jug, a framed photograph of the Alexandra Fountain on the wall, and the Bendigo Bank building visible through the kitchen window — Breakfast, with the Alexandra Fountain on the wall.

Bedroom three at Cobb & Co House with a queen bed in crisp white striped linen, a grey knitted throw, matching bedside lamps and a framed butterfly print above the bedhead — A queen bedroom, made up and waiting.

Bedroom at Cobb & Co House with a queen bed dressed in white and dusty blue linen with tasselled cushions, white bedside tables and lamps, and abstract artwork above — Blue linen, white bedsides, soft lamplight.

Bedroom at Cobb & Co House with a queen bed, mustard fringed throw, television on a timber unit and polished pine floorboards — A bedroom with its own television, on the original boards.

Bedroom at Cobb & Co House with a green throw across white bed linen and the ensuite visible through an open panelled door, charcoal towels on the rail — An ensuite through the panelled door.

Bedroom at Cobb & Co House with a queen bed, grey knitted throw, a cream tub chair in the corner, tall plants and a walk-in robe beyond — Space for an armchair and a walk-in robe.

Large room at Cobb & Co House with two single beds dressed in white and charcoal, a navy leather sofa, a round white side table and polished timber floorboards — The room with two singles, plus its own sofa.

Bathroom at Cobb & Co House with a white bath, separate glass shower, white subway tiling, grey floor tiles and a timber bath mat — A bath and a separate shower.

Ensuite at Cobb & Co House with a dark floating vanity, full-width mirror, charcoal towels on a rail and a trailing string-of-pearls plant — One of the two ensuites.

Laundry at Cobb & Co House with a stainless trough, front-loading washing machine and dryer, ironing board on the wall and woven baskets against plywood panelling — A real laundry — washer, dryer and ironing board.

Hallway at Cobb & Co House with a marble-topped console, white hydrangeas, a large round black-framed mirror and leadlight glass above the far door — The hallway, and the leadlight above the door.

Oversized framed palm tree photograph on the hallway wall at Cobb & Co House, with high ceilings, panelled doors and stained glass in the transom window — High ceilings and a house with a sense of humour.

Glass dining table at Cobb & Co House with white berry stems in a vase, folding chairs, and a bedroom visible through the open doorway beyond — The dining table seats the whole group.

Striped blue, black and cream armchair at Cobb & Co House with a fringed pale blue cushion, beside a rectangular mirror — Retro, unapologetically.

Purple, white and magenta tulips in the garden bed outside Cobb & Co House, with the white iron-lace verandah on the right and the spire of Sacred Heart Cathedral lit by low sun behind the trees — Spring tulips, the verandah and the cathedral spire.

54 Short Street, Bendigo

Right in the CBD.

This large home is located right in the heart of the Bendigo CBD. You can walk to the Ulumbarra Theatre or to any of the many fabulous restaurants without moving the car — and if there are ten of you, not needing to organise two carloads for dinner is worth more than you'd think.

Shops, facilities and sights are all on the doorstep. Close to Australian gold rush history, Chinese history, the art gallery in Pall Mall and the rest of it. Eat out at the sidewalk restaurants, pick your favourite Italian or Chinese, or just walk to one of Bendigo's great cafes after the gallery.

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Cobb & Co House

54 Short Street, Bendigo VIC 3550
In the CBD — walk to the Ulumbarra Theatre, Pall Mall and Hargreaves Mall.

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A review of this house

From a group of eight.

“Stayed at Cobb & Co House in Short Street Bendigo. Great place to stay, close to everything in Bendigo and landlords were incredibly helpful. Supplied milk, juice, tea coffee, muesli, everything to get started. Place was clean and comfortable, heating and cooling etc. Recommend it to anyone who wants to stay in Bendigo.”

Bernadette C. Cobb & Co House, Short Street

Get the whole group under one roof.

Tell us your dates and how many of you there are. We'll confirm availability and put a package together — and for festival weekends, book early.

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