Collette Dinnigan buys Springfield Farm in Southern Highlands

The international fashion designer Collette Dinnigan and her hotelier husband Bradley Cocks have snapped up Springfield Farm, a European-style abode in the Southern Highlands.

The charming Avoca offering, with views to Mt Gibraltar, had been for sale for six years with a recent amended $4.75 million asking price.

The couple, back in Australia from their Italian base, secured the property after their recent stellar $9 million sale of of their Watsons Bay home to Justin and Dom Hind, co-founders of WiTH Collective digital advertising agency.

Entered via a gorgeous long tree-lined driveway, the property has two French-syle timber barn-style buildings either side of a sandstone structure.

There's a sensational living room with gas open fire and high raked ceiling with mezzanine level. 

There's five bedrooms plus a three bedroom groundkeepers' cottage.

The northerly views over lush pasture-land are a key feature of the property about 15 minutes' drive from Bowral.

The grounds have sweeping fully irrigated lawns, a tennis court, ornamental lake, plus stables and paddocks for horses.

There's the must have vege plot, fruit trees and even a small vineyard.

'An amazing property presented in pristine order," was how Richardson & Wrench Bowral agent Michael Maloney marketed the eight hectare holding.

The vendors, Sydney barrister Stephen Flett and his wife, Di, bought the property 11 years ago for $2,525,000 from solicitor Gavin Solomon and his wife, Kathy and then spent $2.5 million upgrading it. 

Its initial pricing had $6 million expectations.

After selling their Careel Bay, Palm Beach retreat for $3.2 million to actor Sophie Lee and adman Anthony Freedman, Dinnigan retained a South Coast retreat and commercial space in Paddington.

This article was first published in the Sunday Telegraph