Rosehill Farm, Kangaloon sold

Funds manager Will Liley and his UK born artist wife Janice have sold their Southern Highlands retreat, Rosehill Farm.

The 45-hectare Kangaloon holding comes with Richard Rowe designed six-bedroom, seven-bathroom house.

It has been sold to entreprenuer Rose Deo for $4.8 million through Colliers International agent Deborah Cullen.

Janice enjoyed the four seasons on offer - with the change of colours - as an artist. Janice studied at the National Art School, Sydney, and before than at Cheltenham College of the Arts in the UK.

Liley, who rowed for Australia in the late 1960s and 1970s, before he founded infrastructure investment firm mInfra

Their 2005-built Australian homestead with a wrap-around verandah, incorporated elements of New England architecture.

Landscape architect Michael Bligh helped with the grounds which comes with a kilometre-long avenue lined with white-trunked Blue Mountains ash eucalypts

This article was first published in the Sunday Telegraph.