Jenner House, Potts Point record setting trophy home listing

Jenner House, Potts Point record setting trophy home listing
Jonathan ChancellorDecember 7, 2020

The prominent Potts Point property Jenner House has been listed for sale.

Last sold for $15 million, it is a mix of Victorian and Italianate styles.

It was built on Macleay Street in 1868 for wealthy merchant Lebbeus Hordern.

One of the district's few surviving marine villas, it was originally known as Stramshall after patriarch Anthony Hordern's English birthplace.

Jenner was designed by the colonial architect Edmund Blacket.

The now three-storey house was sold to car dealer Terry Mullens by the horse breeder Tony Peterson in 2009.

Peterson had secured the property from the Department of Defence for $6 million when it sold its redundant Garden Island precinct holdings in the mid-1990s.

Set on a 1896-square-metre Macleay Street block, the 2009 sale was by Ben Collier of McGrath Estate Agents.

This time it was listed by Ken Lay of J & J Realty Partners who advised Property Observer this week it was "one of a kind."

Lay added it had been temporarily taken off the market with the owner overseas.

Other marine villas to sell in recent times include Bomera, with views of the Opera House and Harbour Bridge, for $12.5 million after two years on the market. It’s original asking price was $25 million.

The retired car dealer Ray Harris and his wife, Robyn, an interior designer, purchased the 1870 Elizabeth Bay mansion Ashton for $10.75 million in 2009.

Potts Point and Elizabeth Bay are mostly known for their apartment prices. At one point a $20 million off the plan Potts Point sale trumped the $16.8 million existing Sydney record in Macquarie Street's Bennelong block when the late car dealer Ray Lintott and his wife, Penny, sold their 12th-floor penthouse overlooking the Opera House.

They then bought a whole-floor unit in Villard on Macleay Street, Potts Point, for $7.4 million. 

The $20 million off the plan sale never proceeded after the developer Ashington hit problems.    

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Jonathan Chancellor

Jonathan Chancellor is one of Australia's most respected property journalists, having been at the top of the game since the early 1980s. Jonathan co-founded the property industry website Property Observer and has written for national and international publications.

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