Point Piper's Federation Heritage
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Point Piper is an affluent, residential, yet small harbourside eastern suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, 6 kilometres (4 mi) east of the Sydney central business district, in the Municipality of Woollahra.
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Point Piper In the News:
Cruise ship raises eyebrows - and ire - as it anchors off Point Piper |
| Anchored in Sydney Harbour ... the view from Wunulla Road, Point Piper. |
- An ocean liner anchored in the middle of Sydney Harbour is raising eyebrows in the lead up to New Year's Eve festivities.
- Pictures of the boat started appearing on social media on Monday showing it positioned just off Point Piper - one of the best positions to view the world-famous fireworks.
- But Radiance of the Seas, a Royal Caribbean cruise liner, is simply seeking safe refuge from Cyclone Freda that is lashing the Pacific.
- But smh.com.au reader Sonia King was not impressed with the move. "The position and angle of this ugly eyesore has resulted in maximum obstruction to the views of revellers in parks and harbour locations. The decision was made without any thought whatsoever of the people of Sydney," she said.
- One of the eastern suburbs' most famous residents, Malcolm Turnbull, in response to a concerned Twitter follower, tweeted: "I wonder what the state government has charged the cruise ship for the spot?"
- Another tweep labelled the move #unAustralian, while legal-eagle Richard Ackland was one of the first to alert the twittersphere to the boat's whereabouts, saying: "Huge cruise ship plonked off Point Piper, blocking expensive views. Sounds of swearing waft across the water".
Point Piper Property News:
- 60 Wunulla Road Point Piper NSW 2027 Restored Edwardian home Edwardian waterfront home of John Piven-Large in Australia's Most Exclusive Peninsula - The Point Piper peninsula finally has a fresh prestige property listing
- No sale yet of the $55 million Altona
- No sale yet of the murder-accused Ron Medich's $45 million-plus home
- Point Piper on the Chinese tourist route for insight into the privileged lives of Communist Party princelings
- Treasures of 'the Vatican' - Margie Blok
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The Herald asked the Sydney lawyer for Zeng Wei,the PointPiper property owner, whether his client was the son of Zeng Qinghong, the former Chinese vice-president.''I believe so,''said the lawyer, John Comino,who was the mayor of Woollahra, after declining several times to reveal the owners' identity.
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Point Piper Housing Prices
Point Piper is generally regarded as the most exclusive residential suburb in |
| Fairwater, New South Head Road, home of Lady Fairfax |
Eight properties of the top 20 prestige properties in Sydney are located in Point Piper.[1]
- John Symond's mansion on Wingadal Place, reportedly cost over $70M to build (excluding land), easily making it Australia's most expensive, privately owned residential home
- In 2007, Altona (Australia's second most expensive house) was listed for more than A$50 million.
- Craig-y-Mor is a non-waterfront house on Wolseley Road. Australia's second most expensive residential property, it sold in 2008 for $32.4 million. It was previously owned by Rene Rivkin, who sold it to businessman Ben Tilley in 2004 for $16.15 million.
(The Tilleys bought it from stockbroker Rene Rivkin and his wife, Gayle, who bought from the former chief of Patrick stevedores, Chris Corrigan, and his wife, Valerie.)
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| Altona, a Sydney waterfront landmark, asking $55 million |
"Point Piper is home to many prominent Australians including:
- Malcolm Turnbull, former Federal Opposition Leader and Member forWentworth
- "The Tilleys are moving around the corner to a Wunulla Road house bought for about $13.5 million from Malcolm and Lucy Turnbull. Since 1994, the Turnbulls have lived next door in a waterfront residence bought for $5.4 million.
In 1999, they secured the neighbouring property as an investment for $7.1 million. More recently they reduced its land size by carving off about 600 sq m of waterfront garden and annexing that portion to the property where they live."[2] - Frank Lowy - The Westfield Group founder and boss"[3]
More News
- "Point Piper continues to offer up some of its best waterfront properties. Despite no sale yet of the $55 million Altona or murder accused Ron Medich's $45 million-plus home, the Edwardian waterfront home of John Piven-Large has hit the market, offering five bedrooms, a tidal beach and a swimming pool with price expectations of more than $40 million."[4]
- Altona's owner, Deke Miskin, the former teenage magazine publisher, has had numerous nibbles but no sale of the house and its adjacent block of land, which traded in 2002 through a Woollahra agent, Bill Bridges, for a record $28 million. Miskin, who hails from the Cornwall fishing village Mevagissey, and his wife, Eve, are seeking more than $60 million.[5]
- Altona has been for sale, on and off, for five years, the closest to sale at $56 million when the Lowy family bid was rejected byDeke and Eve Miskin in 2007. Title Tattle well recalls the Lowys first inspected the property just after the actor Russell Crowelooked, but decided it was not right.
What's affectionately known as the HPM house has been for sale on Wolseley Road for three years or so. It was in 2009 when it was listed with $60 million hopes. Its the six-bedroom waterfront residence of the late Peter and Ruth Simon, who established the electrical switch manufacturers HPM Industries. The Simons bought the property from the late FAI chairman Larry Adler for $12 million in 1996. The vast five-level concrete house stands in the most verdant patch of Wolseley Road, neighbouring Duff Reserve.[6]
Elstree, 138 Wolseley Rd Point Piper
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| (Top: centre left): Elstree, 138 Wolseley Rd Point Piper , sold for $18.5m in 2007, $22m in 2008 |
- "A fine and largely intact example of the Federation Arts and Crafts style.
- A single storey rendered masonry cottage in a simplified Federation Arts and Crafts style. The house features a high pitched hipped roof with slate tiles, galvanised iron ridge cappings, and exposed timber eaves. Gutters are painted galvanised iron.
- There is a gable extension to the west. Walls are pebble dash rendered masonry. Gable end has timber panel.
A high boundary wall and double garage hides most of the house from the street. A heavy timber gate has the name 'Elstree' painted onto it. - Style: Federation Arts and Crafts External Materials: Pebble dash rendered masonry walls. Roosf have slate tiles, galvanised iron ridge cappings, and exposed timber eaves."[8]
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| Elstree, 138 Wolseley Rd Point Piper , property outlined in red, lower right |
Sold three times in four years!
Nov 14, 2007
1. ELSTREE, the hillside 1920s Point Piper residence, has been sold for about $18.5 million to the Channel Seven director Bruce McWilliam, who owns the neighbouring contemporary house on the harbour.
- The sale of the 910-square-metre non-waterfront property, which last changed hands in the 1960s, is the year's fourth-highest. It also ranks as Sydney's fourth-highest ever non-waterfront house sale.
The acquisition, which adds to Mr McWilliam's 1414-square-metre ultra-modern glass house, continues the trend of harbourside compounds.
- The Rydge entertainment industry family leads the way with six adjoining Point Piper properties totalling 3750 square metres. Capped off by an $8.7 million non-waterfront purchase in 2005, it began in 1960 with a £30,250 purchase by the family patriarch, the late Sir Norman Rydge.
- The land-banking federal Environment Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, owns 2660 square metres comprising two adjoining Point Piper properties, begun with a $5.4 million outlay in 1994 and a $7.1 million purchase in 1999.[9]
2. Mr McWilliam paid $18.5million for 138 Wolseley Road in November last year (2007), before selling it to Mr Tilley for a $3.5million capital gain and 100 square metres less land (which Mr McWilliam is said to have kept to build a garage).
3. May 2011, ELSTREE sold again:
Settlement took place on the $18 million sale of a property in Wolseley Road, Point Piper. Named Elstree, the circa 1920s residence was sold by Tiffany Tilley, the wife of the businessman Ben Tilley, to the equities fund manager Warwick Johnson. - **Margie Blok[10]
- The round robin of Point Piper residents continues further north along Wolseley Road at Elstree, a circa-1920s residence that recently sold for $18 million to Japanese-speaking equities fund manager Warwick Johnson and his wife, Anne.
- Elstree was sold by businessman Ben Tilley and his wife, Tiffany, who copped a $4 million loss, having bought the property three years ago for about $22 million from lawyer Bruce McWilliam**. The deal was negotiated by agent Brad Pillinger, whose website boasts the $18 million sale is the highest non-waterfront transaction this year.[11]
From the Sydney Morning Herald: Ben Tilley
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| Nice little earners ... the three houses in Wolseley Road, PointPiper, that Ben Tilley, above, bought and sold at a considerable profit. |
More news about the sale of 'Elstree':
| Alex May April 6, 2008: "BEN TILLEY has every reason to consider Wolseley Road Sydney's best street. With a median property price of $7,092,000, the coveted Point Piper row has long had millionaires trade property for profits that would leave the average mortgagee reeling.
| Vanda Carson and Kate McClymont July 24, 2009 "WOLSELEY ROAD in Point Piper, one of the top 10 strips of real estate in the world, can also lay claim to more feuds per square metre than most others.
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View of Sydney arbor scandal in Point Piper
Source: The Daily Telegraph IT'S chainsaws at 10 paces on millionaires row as Point Piper residents take aim at each other over fresh claims of illegal tree lopping on exclusive Wolseley Rd. If the scandal of being filmed hurling stones at an arborist clinging to a neighbour's tree wasn't enough, car wash king Anthony Sahade faces claims he ordered the illegal lopping of a healthy tree to improve his Harbour view. Car wash king's outburst caught on tape Mr Sahade, the owner of the Crystal Car Wash chain, yesterday escaped an assault conviction for throwing stones at arborist George Palmer as he pruned publican Peter Ryan's ailing lilli pilli. Read more... |
Super-rich bring house down
Date: September 15, 2012Falling prices mean some of Sydney's finest mansions have sat on the market, albeit quietly, for years, with vendors stubbornly holding out for their magic price while billionaire buyers hustle for a bargain. That is if you call shaving $5 million off a $60 million asking price a bargain. A buyer is yet to be found for the former property tycoon and accused murderer Ron Medich's Point Piper mansion, for which he is seeking $40 million. Former headhunter Julia Ross is also holding out for the magic $40 million for her palace just up the hill. Businessman Charles Scarf and his wife, Maria, refused a $50 million offer for their Wentworth Street property in 2007. They are now hoping to get $40 million for the 677 square metre home. ''It's ruthless out there": Agent Billy Bridges, who has been slogging it out for two years to sell Sydney's ultimate trophy home, the Point Piper pile Altona. Bridges says he has two buyers circling, the property developer Bob Elland an unnamed Australian billionaire. However, on Wednesday the highly guarded asking price that Altona's owners, Deke and Eve Miskin, were seeking emerged, after rival agent, Coldwell Banker, published the $54.5 million price-tag on its US website. Read more... |
Kilmory, 6 Wentworth Street, Point Piper
Kilmory is located on the northeastern bend of Wentworth Street on the highest part of Point Piper. Because of this elevated position the building and its landscaped grounds can be seen from areas in Vaucluse, Rose Bay and Darling Point.[14]
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"Kilmory" was built in 1912 for Sir Alexander MacCormick, who was a surgeon and a member of the Sydney University Medical School. After the war, it became Riverview College and then became a Franciscan Retreat. [15]
"A grand though simple house, it uses the harled walls, slate roofs and robust stone chimneys characterstic of architect C.R. Mackintosh (1868-1928) such as the houses Hills House, Helensburgh, Scotland, and the house built for C.F.A. Voysey (1857-1941).
"Today it is known as the Ave Maria Centre, and is the Provincial House of the Roman Catholic Order of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary." [16]
- The house occupies a prominent and highly visible position on the site. From parts of Wentworth Street, it presents a striking and dominating form against an uninterrupted skyline. This elevated position also provides the house and the upper landscaped areas with expansive views of Sydney Harbour and the northern foreshore.
- The house is an Arts and Crafts style building designed in 1913 by John William Manson of the architectural firm Manson and Pickering for Dr Alexander MacCormick (later Sir Alexander), an eminent member of Sydney’s medical profession. Construction of the house was undertaken by the leading building firm of Stuart Bros. Co. over the period 1913 to 1914.
- The house and its landscape setting, including sandstone walling, driveway, entry posts and gates, elevated terraces, gardens and prominent trees are highly significant and contributory elements in the Wentworth Street streetscape.[17]
'Notrella' at 142 Wolseley Road Point Piper
Sold for $13.8Million, Oct 2006[18] |
| 'Notrella' at 142 Wolseley Road Point Piper |
A fine and largely intact example of the Federation Queen Anne style. The property forms part of the original grant to John Piper in 1820.
Constructed: 1904.
Two storey red face brick house in the Federation Queen Anne style. House site on a rocky outcrop overlooking the bay, bounded to the north by Woleley Crescent.
- Roof is a series of gables, with terra cotta tiles and ridge cappings, timber fascias, exposed timber rafters and painted timber lining to eaves. Gable ends have timber shingles, or brick and pebble dash rendered masonry infill construction. Single rendered masonry chimneys with red face brick tops and galvanised iron vents.
- Generally timber double hung windows, with segmental arched heads and sills in a darker brick. Windows have timber jalousies. A single storey verandah to the front (south) has similar tiles, gable over doorway has timber fascia and shingles to end. There is a wide string course of darker brick at first floor level.
- A single storey portico to the western side has balcony above, brick and rough cut stone string courses, and arched sides. Arches are of darker brick. A pair of multi-paned timber doors lead to balcony above. Doors have arched head and fan light above. Original gable to the north has similar brick and pebble dash rendered masonry infill construction.
'Danmark' 16-18 Wolseley Road, Point Piper, NSW
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- The site forms part of the original grant to John Piper in 1820. The property passed to William Charles Cooper in 1898, briefly to Catherine Kitt in 1902, and to John Paul in 1903. The house was constructed for John Paul in c.1907 and named Danmark after his homeland.
A well conceived blend of classic character and modern innovation, with 4m pressed metal ceilings, an art nouveau fireplaces, stainless steel kitchen, deco bathrooms, and living and dining rooms open to a side courtyard. - Rendered masonry house on a steeply sloping site away from the road towards the harbour. Street frontage is two storeys. Steeply pitched gable hipped roof, with glazed terra cotta tiles and ridge cappings and colorbond drainage system. Timber fascias and eaves.
- Three storey gable extension to the south has timber lined eaves supported by decorative timber brackets above rendered string course. Gable end above main entrance has timber and rendered masonry infill construction.
Fairwater, New South Head Road, Point Piper
See also: Architect John Horbury HuntA powerful yet restrained composition in brick and timber, large complex, manages to successfully modulate its scale so that it appears disarmingly domestic.
- Buildings and grounds are amongst the last of the great suburban estates remaining intact.
- Grounds provide an important scenic addition to the shoreline of Seven Shillings Beach.
- Estate is historically important, having been connected with the Whites of Cranbrook and the Fairfax family, who still retain ownership.
- Medieval and Queen Anne inspired.
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| Fairwater located at 560 New South Head Rd, Point Piper |
Fairwater is a large domestic residence constructed in 1882 with additions made in c.1901 and 1910, with former stable (c.1900s) and garage (1930), situated on a large suburban allotment fronting Port Jackson with garden landscaping.
- The residence is a double storey structure of brick construction with a timber-framed roof originally constructed in 1882 with additions c.1901, and in particular from 1910s.
The exterior appearance is characterised by the use of a brick, which is pale yellow in colour. The roof is covered in slate tiles. Additions made c.1910/11 often include the use of sandstone (i.e. in the verandah and carriage porch) which is very reddish in colour. - Pale yellow brick, stuccoed internally, slate roof. Windows are either one pane double hung or diamond patterned lead light casements, most with louvred shutters. Original building was sympathetically altered and extended in 1910, with Tudor style half timbered gables, bays of small Tudor windows surrounded by timber panelling and balconies. Also added large room, bedrooms above, porte cochere, wide verandah. Whole effect Medieval and Queen Anne inspired Picturesque.
- Fairwater is of historical significance in consideration of its long association with the Australian publishing family company founded by John Fairfax in 1841, whose descendants have lived in the house since c.1901 to the present. It is also historically significant for it association with the Joseph family of merchants who built the house in 1882, and the architect they employed to build it - John Horbury Hunt. (Clive Lucas, Stapleton & Partners Pty Ltd, 1999) .
66 Wolseley Road Point Piper NSW
The building was constructed sometime after 1915 is significant as a large, prominent, two storey residential building in the Federation Arts and Crafts style. The building has retained its original scale and form on the exterior even though it has had a number of additions and has been modified for use as flats.
- Michael Suttor designed apartment 2b which is an elegant apartment with views
- Spacious entertainer's terrace and shared lawn area.
- Apartment 3 has 3 bedrooms 2 with built-ins, huge master with ensuite and views; 2nd bathroom; Spacious lounge and separate dining opening to deck; Granite/Gaggenau kitchen; Internal laundry; Polished timber floors; High ceilings; R/c air con and lock-up garage.
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- Two storey painted brick building located on a sloping site was designed in the Federation Arts and Crafts style..
- Northern wall has red face brick with a hip, with two gables to the front.
- Terra cotta tiles and ridge cappings, timber fascias to gable ends, and timber lining to eaves.
- Gable end has timber fascia, and timber and pebble dash rendered masonry construction.
- There is a two storey verandah to the front (east), ground level has been enclosed with modern glazing and painted plasterboard. Timber posts, balustrade, floor boards and lining to first floor. A timber stair to the northern end leads up to first floor level.
2 Buckhurst Avenue Point Piper NSW
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- There are 5 principal bedrooms and 3.5 elegant bathrooms,
- master retreat with sitting area, sunny balcony, walk in wardrobe and oversize ensuite.
- An impressive choice of relaxing and entertaining areas include splendid entrance foyer, family/TV room, separate study or games room,
- sunroom, formal dining room, open plan informal living/dining with
- family kitchen (walk in pantry/wine cellar, marble island, stainless steel benchtop, 2 Miele dishwashers, 6-burner gas stove/double oven, extensive storage),
- plus additional top floor playroom/teenage retreat or extra bedroom if required.
- Accompanying the grand proportions and high ceilings are leadlights, 4 fireplaces, impressive joinery, herringbone parquetry/polished timber floors, abundant built ins, leadlights, plantation shutters, internal laundry (opening to drying court), ducted air conditioning, surround sound, attic store, copper gutters/downpipes, security system and remote double garage.
23 Wunulla Road Point Piper
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- Inside is just as inviting with warm earthy tones, spacious living rooms and luxurious finishes.
- There are 4 bedrooms, study, 5 bathrooms,
- separate nanny quarters, powder room,
- CaesarStone/Euro kitchen with casual dining,
- media/TV room, elegant lounge &
- dining with fireplace, ducted reverse cycle air conditioning,
- full security, internal access from double garage."
60 Wunulla Road Point Piper
The Edwardian waterfront home of John Piven-Large has hit the market, offering five bedrooms, a tidal beach and a swimming pool with price expectations of more than $40 million[19] The home was first called Ni-No-Nan after its 1912 construction, a name that has thankfully been lost in time. Historically, the home is significant as one of only a small handful of the original constructions on the peninsula.[20]
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- five beds, five baths, secure double garage
- Grand rooms, traditional library/den
- Conservatory plus a recreation room
- Gourmet kitchen and caterers pantry
- Manicured gardens with swimming pool
- Sun drenched terraces and courtyards
- In the sweep of a premier cul-de-sac
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