Bowral's Chateau Blondel finally sells

Bowral's Chateau Blondel, the French-inspired sandstone home of antique dealers Gary and Maryanne Nolan, has finally sold.

It was sold pre-auction, price undisclosed, on its recent auction marketing campaign through estate agents Bill Bridges and Ian Rayner.

More than $4 million was being sought this time around for the house which was constructed in 2000 after the block was bought from Eukarima School.

Title Tattle gleans it was bought by Canberra buyers for around $3.5 million.

Back in 2006 Title Tattle recalls the seven-bedroom, 17th-century French chateau-styled residence was for sale with a $7.9 million asking price.

From the entry to the 5.7-hectare property through 300-year-old cast-iron gates, the carriageway leads up to the porte-cochere.

With its walls 450mm deep from 4000 tonnes of quarried stone, the residence covers 975 sq m, with three state rooms, baroque dining hall, seven bedrooms and three bathrooms.

I also recall there were grazing English Suffolk sheep and alpacas in the frost-bitten grounds of the Centennial Road property that overlooks the nearby Centennial Vineyards.

The house name apparently dates back to an ancestral link to Jacques-Francois Blondel, Louis XV's architect.

Berrima antiques dealers Maryanne and Gary Nolan were inspired by the work of French interior designer Jacques Garcia.