Morison Drive looking along pale brick houses, eucalypts and a cracked footpath

Lurnea NSW 2170

The footpath cracks first. Then you see the cream brick.

16 Morison Dr

You arrive on the verge, not through a painted hotel car park.

Two storeys of cream brick, a metal screen, a wheelie bin on the drive. The gum on the nature strip hides a corner of the upper windows. If you’re coming off Hoxton Park Road, it’s a short turn into a residential street — letterboxes, fences, cars nosed in.

We don’t mark bays with our name. Park along the street the way the neighbours do. For a room, call +61 2 9730 6426. If it rings out, wait a minute: someone is often on the stairs with linen.

Cream-brick two-storey hotel, eucalypt on the verge, wheelie bin on the drive — Overcast western-Sydney light. One upstairs pane blows out. That’s the face of 16.

The screen door is the front. The mat sits a little off-square.

Two concrete steps, diamond mesh, cream brick pillars. We don’t run a shuttle into town. We point you at the street and that’s the help.

Cream brick porch, dark metal screen door, coir mat, gum tree to the right

Sitting room, cream sofa, strip of raw brick, window onto the street

Inside

A sofa that sags on one cushion. A charging cable on the side table. Through the sash you still see the street roof tiles. Western Sydney light is often flat; that’s what comes into the rooms.

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