Killountan, which featured in Our Beautiful Homes: Australia's upper middle class in the Edwardian Age, last traded when bough by Keith Wherry in 2002 for $2.85 million.īarlow built houses for Sydney's new rich professionals, mostly Catholics, with big families. Restauratuer Peter Doyle's Cicada is no longer, having been restored and sold as a residence for $13 million in 2016. Over the past 24 months there have been two notable terrace sales in Challis Avenue, including one reputedly for $14 million. When last offered in 2002, the property sold for $2,850,000. Set on 650 sqm, the buidling has been on market for over 250 days. There's precedent for the conversion back to residential, touted by the listing agents, Ken Jacobs at Christie's International and William Manning at McGrath. The wooden columns at the entrance were uncovered, recreating the front porch. Its now restored decorative elements were reserved for inside with missing mouldings replaced, elliptical Tudor arches highlighted, and a new internal staircase built, in the same style as the one that had been demolished decades earlier. A conservatory was erected and the garaging built underneath.
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There was red brick with stain glass windows and timber ornamentation. Without ostentation, its facade was a statement against the vulgarity of Victorian architecture of the day. Then in the late 1980s, the Farris family undertook a year-long restoration. They were earning 320 pounds annually when offered for sale in 1944. It was during the 1920s when the house known as Belgravia was split into six apartments. The home, set between Macleay and Victoria streets, has been known for the past three decades as Simpsons of Potts Point, a small boutique hotel of 14 rooms.īut its current listing seems quite likely to see its return to its original state as a residence, the only privately owned freestanding mansion of its era in the area. His family was from County Cork, Ireland, where the family home was also named Killountan. He was a notable patron of the arts, and foundation president of the Australian Ex Libris Society. The father of five was a leader of Roman Catholic laity, including being treasurer of the St Mary's Cathedral Building Fund from the 1870s.
The Toohey's director, John Lane-Mullins, who was a longtime member of the NSW Legislative Council, was a man of considerable means. The 1892 house at 8 Challis Avenue was named Killountan, joining other well-known Barlow homes, including Keadue in Elizabeth Bay and St Kevin's in Woollahra. Architect John Bede Barlow designed a Potts Point home for his cousins, the Lane-Mullins family at the end of the 19th century.
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