Jenner House, Potts Point seeks $20 million buyers

The latest listing of the Regency Revival-style mansion Jenner House in Potts Point will be a three ring circus.

It has been listed with $20 million hopes by Barry Goldman of Raine & Horne Double Bay, Jason Boon of Richardson & Wrench Elizabeth Bay, and Michael Pallier of Sotheby's International.

The restored heritage-listed residence has held the Potts Point record at $15 million since 2009 when luxury car dealer Terry Mullens and his wife Wendy bought the imposing property.

It had been sold unrenovated by horse breeder Tony Peterson.

It was briefly listed for sale in May 2013.

Recent research suggests the home was once occupied by King George V while he was serving in the Royal Navy.

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

The now three-storey home is set on a 1970-square-metre Macleay Street block.

Built with a mix of Victorian and Italianate styles for wealthy merchant Lebbeus Hordern, the 1870s home is one of the district's surviving marine villas.

Originally known as Stramshall, named after patriach Anthony Hordern's English birthplace, Jenner was built by the colonial architect Edmund Blacket. It was also known as Kurrahjeen from 1880 to 1885 and Lugano from 1888 to 1911. Its current name was bestowed on it in 1914.

In the meantime Bomera on Wylde Street was sold for $12.5 million after its restoration by Jorge and Monica Fernandez to Leanne Catelan, the daughter of the late property data entrepreneur Ray Catelan.

Lilian Barclay sold her Georgian villa, Rockwall House for around $11 million to a local mining tycoon earlier this year.