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By Elicia Murray
For families with school-aged children, the upper north shore has a magnetism beyond its leafy streetscapes and heritage homes.
Turramurra and its near neighbours have so many high-performing schools – Warrawee Public School, Knox Grammar School, Pymble Ladies’ College and Abbotsleigh, to name a few – that it’s almost impossible to find anything middle-of-the-road academically.
The suburb’s heritage homes hail from the late 1800s, differing from its surrounding areas.
Twenty-two kilometres north-west of the Sydney CBD, Turramurra straddles the Pacific Highway between Pymble and Warrawee.
Unlike some suburbs, its heritage homes hail from very different eras. The earliest residences were built in the late 1800s.
Buyers with more contemporary aspirations have replaced retro pads with new builds.
Roughly three-quarters of all dwellings in Turramurra are free-standing.
Many of the apartments went up in the 1980s, though there are examples from other decades, too.
There’s been a strong recent push to redevelop sites near the highway.
Turramurra is 40 minute train ride away from the city CBD.
The main commercial area is concentrated around the train station, from which it takes about 40 minutes to reach Wynyard.
There are also shops at Eastern Road and Princes Street, South Turramurra and North Turramurra.
The area has shaken off its stuffy reputation to welcome cool restaurants and wine bars such as Kipling’s Garage Bar and Tapas Tapas Bodega.