4/1 Mount Adelaide St, Darling Point is within the prestigious Babworth Estate.
A trophy apartment in one of Sydney’s most famous Arts and Craft style mansions has hit the market but the purchaser will need to dig deep to own it.
The huge four-bedroom apartment over 423 sqm in Babworth House at 4/1 Mount Adelaide St, Darling Point had cost current owners Robert Rich, the former Argo Investments director, $4.5m in 2001, when the grand mansion was converted to five exclusive residences.
But he and his wife, Myriame, are now spending their time at their various homes in the Southern Highlands so it’s listed with Michael Dunn and Marion Badenoch of Richardson & Wrench Double Bay in an expressions of interest campaign.
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The four-bedroom apartment is over 423 sqm.
Apartment 4 offers exceptional privacy.
There are rumoured to be hopes of a similar price to the $20m achieved in Flinton St, Paddington, in June, when author Darleen Bungey and her husband Geoff Cousins bought into the Paddington Green development.
Babworth House, which sits in 5000 sqm of mature manicured gardens, was completed in 1915 as the city residence for Sir Samuel Hordern of the prominent retail family.
Apartment 4 offers exceptional privacy, security, a northerly aspect and intimate harbour views.
The house-like residence has its own entrance, a large self-contained guest apartment, and a private lift with internal access to the private garage. The apartment was designed by Thomas Hamel for comfortable family living and grand-scale entertaining.
Facilities at Babworth House include an indoor Roman-style swimming pool.
6a Ginaghulla St, Bellevue Hill, is right next door to the historic mansion, Rona.
It has impressive harbour views.
The guide is $10m-$11m for an August 26 auction.
Another of Dunn’s listings is 6A Ginahgulla Rd, Bellevue Hill — right next door to the grand estate Rona — which records show was owned by the late Anne Angles, wife of the late philanthropist rag trader Emery Angles.
There are hopes of $10m-$11m for an August 26 auction.
The couple’s son is Mark Angles, who now resides in the Bellevue Hill residence Taynish, bought from the commercial property magnate Robert Christie, which cost $20.9m in 2021.
Angles heads up the family property and private equity investment office The Suave Group.
He’d bought the 1930s house, designed by architect F Glynn Gilling, via Dunn, who’d been guiding $15m.
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