Talana, Hawthorn East Queen Anne trophy home finally sells

Talana, Hawthorn East Queen Anne trophy home finally sells
Jonathan ChancellorJuly 31, 2014

Talana, the imposing Queen Anne-style residence at Hawthorn East, has been sold by lawyer Tony Troiani, a partner at King & Wood Mallesons.

Set on Harcourt Street, the six-bedroom, three-bathroom 1900 house was designed by architect John Beswicke, the best known architect in Hawthorn during the late 1800s, having also designed the Hawthorn Town Hall.

The red-brick house, with the decorative embellishments overlaid with timber, comes with a third-storey tower under the large hipped roof clad in Marseilles tiles.

It sits on a 4,122-square-metre holding with north/south synthetic grass tennis court, a solar- and gas-heated pool, and a self-contained summer house.

Talana has been renovated since the current vendors bought the property in 2000 for $2 million from the Mott family.

There is a driveway leading to a four-car garage.

It’s named after a town in the province of Ogliastra, in Sardinia, Italy.

Having been listed with Marshall White in 2011, it was relisted through RT Edgar agent Michael Ebeling with $11 million-plus hopes in 2012.

The most recent marketing agents were Abercromby's who marketed it as offering a resort style family lifestyle with six bedrooms and three bathrooms, a tennis court with golf driving nets, enormous dual-heated lap/leisure pool, and an extra fully self-contained, Boston Ivy-clad summer house.

Jock Langley of Abercromby’s real estate was expecting about $10 million.

 

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Jonathan Chancellor

Jonathan Chancellor is one of Australia's most respected property journalists, having been at the top of the game since the early 1980s. Jonathan co-founded the property industry website Property Observer and has written for national and international publications.

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