Wild west village in Yandoit near Daylesford in Victoria is up for sale for $1.8million

A house with a wild west village complete with a church, saloon, blacksmith and brothel onsite is on the market for a cool $1.8million.

The owners Chris Olver and his wife Shirley built and furnished the private village on their 5.06-hectare property at 35 Mystic Drive, Yandoit in Victoria’s north-west. 

Mr Olver, who is a fan of western films, built the town over a period of 23 years and named it ‘Cross Creek’ – honouring a village from the 1956 film The Fastest Gun Alive.

The 77-year-old described the village – which has building representing a jail, a cinema, a general store and a blacksmith – as a cross between ‘Australian colonial and the American wild west’. 

The 1880s gold-rush set up also has a courthouse, butcher, saddlery, grain store, stagecoach booking office, a church and a brothel. 

The 1880s gold-rush set up also has a courthouse, butcher, saddlery, grain store, booking office, a church (pictured) and a brothel

There are antiques scattered throughout the mini-town including metal working tools and horse carts (pictured)

The house (pictured) including the wild west village is up for sale for a cool $1.8million

The owners Chris Olver and his wife Shirley built and furnished the private village (pictured) on their 5.06-hectare property at 35 Mystic Drive, Yandoit in Victoria’s north-west

Mr Olver, who is a fan of western films, built the town over a period of 23 years, naming it ‘Cross Creek’ – honouring a village from the 1956 film The Fastest Gun Alive (pictured)

The house’s home cinema (pictured) sports a working 35mm drive-in projector which Mr Olver said he would leave for the buyers along with modern Blu-ray projectors

Most of the interiors have been fitted out with furnishings and feature mannequins (pictured inside the church) that have been dressed by Mr Olver’s wife Shirley

Most of the interiors have been fitted out with furnishings and feature mannequins that have been dressed by Shirley. 

There are antiques scattered throughout the mini-town including metal working tools, cactus plants and horse carts. 

It also has a fake graveyard and gold mining paraphernalia.  

McQueen Real Estate director Kim McQueen (pictured) said the village was a ‘labour of love’ for its owners

Apart from the ‘incredibly unique’ village the three-bedroom house has a wide deck and open-plan living areas with views of Mount Franklin and the countryside.

It also has a home cinema, a study, two bathrooms and four garage spaces.

The cinema sports a working 35mm drive-in projector which Mr Olver said he would leave for the buyers along with modern Blu-ray projectors.

The picture theatre located in the village also has a functional 16mm projector that can show old movies. 

Mr Olver had help from a builder friend and his son who is a plumber to build the attached village with recycled materials he collected when he was a truck driver. 

‘I thought, ‘I’ll build a little building, before I knew it I had another one and then another one’,’ Mr Olver told realestate.com.au.

‘It’s a bit of Australian colonial with the American wild west.’ 

McQueen Real Estate director Kim McQueen told Daily Mail Australia the village was a ‘labour of love’ for Mr Olver. 

The three-bedroom home has open-plan living areas (pictured)

Apart from the ‘incredibly unique’ village the house has views of Mount Franklin and the countryside (pictured)

Ms McQueen said she expects the property will take some time to sell due to its unique village set up (pictured, the kitchen in the main house)

Mr Olver said the area is a beautiful place to live (pictured, the deck of the house)

‘I’ve sold amazing properties in my career but I’ve never sold an intact village,’ Ms McQueen said. 

‘It has 16-17 dwellings that have incredible detail.’

She said she expects the property, which is 19km north of Daylesford, will take some time to sell due to its unique village set up.

Meanwhile, Mr Olver said the area is a beautiful place to live. 

‘I’m sorry to be selling but at my age, 77, it’s a bit hard to keep up with everything that needs to be done around here.’