Just one bid when Toorak chauffeur's clocktower quarters went to auction

Just one bidder was evident when The Clocktower House in Toorak went to auction on the weekend through Warwick Anderson at RT Edgar.

It was passed in at $3.77 million, but sold at an undisclosed price soon after for what was said to be an "outstanding" offer.

With its bronze clock tower, the residence was originally the garage and chauffeur's residence of the Homeden estate. The Rolls Royce has long gone.

It was converted some 25 years ago.

The Clocktower House building dates from the Nicholas Aspro family days. There was feedback during the marketing campaign that Yehudi Menuhin, who had married Nola Nicholas, had practiced his violin upstairs.

It is now a four bedroom home behind its blackwood and copperlight arched doorway following its renovation by John and Judith McKindley family at an estimated $22,000 cost following its 1979 purchase. 

It sits on a 740 square metre block at 4 Lawrenny Court. It last traded in 1985 at around $450,000.