Reeler House, the 1986 Home Beautiful house of the year, listed

Reeler House, the Turramurra house designed by Ian Reeler of Reeler + Partridge and completed in 1985, has been listed for sale.

Set on a sloping, timbered site, it is a vertical house that has a central pinwheel design, with a central stair the main axis of the design.

It rises a metre to each level and on each corner is a landing which leads to the rooms on that level.

Using the principles of triangular geometry, the result is a expansive house having 16 rooms over 10 levels at 34 Finlay Road.

There is 380 square metres of internal living space on the 1,721 square metre block.

The origins of the Reeler House had begun in 1975 when the architect builder, Ian and his wife, Patricia acquired a vacant lot and built a home on Holmes Avenue overlooking the picturesque bushland where the Reeler House is sited.

Their Holmes Avenue house won the Sun-Herald House of the Year in its category for a multiple-level gabled and skillion-roofed house with fawn-coloured brick and timber construction palette. 

Unseen from the street, the Finlay Road house which overlooks a gully was built with the assistance of engineer, John Connell & Associates and consulting surveyors, Proust & Gardner.

It featured as House of the Year in the Home Beautiful magazine in 1986.

It has also featured in House and Garden, Architecture Australia and Wood One, a Japanese publication.

"The result today is a house that is highly crafted, beautifully built and offers a flexible use of space for a family today, just as the architect originally intended for his family almost 30 years ago," Marcus Lloyd-Jones, the Modern House listing agent said.

No public price guidance has been given.

Modern House is a specialist estate agency for architect-designed residences.