Doyles list one of their redundant Watsons Bay cottage properties
The Doyle name has been synonymous with Watsons Bay since the 1850s.
And one of their properties in the suburb — an 1830s sandstone cottage that preceded their arrival — is being listed with $3.5 million plus hopes.
They have held it since 1978, having sought to sell it several years ago.
Bay Cottage, at 306-308 Old South Head Road, is owned by Robyn, Gayle and Sharon Doyle — the three daughters of the late Peter Doyle Sr.
Listing agent Alain Waitsman of LJ Hooker Double Bay has the village property scheduled for November 3 auction.
The late Alice Doyle was Peter Doyle Sr's mother. She was born in 1911, at Watsons Bay, the youngest of six children of Eva and Charles Everitt.
Alice’s grandfather Henry Newton was one of the earliest fishermen living at the bay.
In 1885 Henry and his wife Hannah opened tea rooms in a weatherboard cottage on the site of the future restaurant Doyles on the Beach – the restaurant which Alice would later develop and take to international success.
Alice Doyle died in December 2004, her husband, Jack, having died two years earlier.
The extended Doyle family retain the ownership of the restaurant.