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A backyard pool area decorated with Roman-style columns. Picture: Robert Pozo
A house styled as a medieval castle with a moat, a grain silo converted to an apartment and a backyard pool area decorated with Roman-style statues are among a spate of recent NSW listings for highly unusual homes.
The medieval-style castle on a cul-de-sac in the Campbelltown area stands out among the surrounding homes with its turrets, gargoyles and front stone wall.
Inside is a patchwork of timber beams, stained glass windows and stonework, with the owner revealing “hidden features” would be revealed to whoever purchased the property.
It’s currently for sale through an expressions of interest campaign but seller Sonita Ganda has been mum on her price expectations, revealing she was still awaiting “feedback” from the market.
The Leumeah house turned castle.
Ms Ganda said viewings were restricted only to those with pre-approval for a loan due to getting long lines of curious neighbours wanting to see the inside, which she said was something of a local “landmark” in Leumeah.
Ms Ganda and partner Gopal purchased the property in 2014 from the builder, who had designed the medieval house to remind him of his native England.
The couple are regular attendees at medieval themed events and, when the property was last listed for sale in 2014, she had arrived at the open for inspection in medieval garbs
Records showed the property last traded for $480,000 eight years ago after spending close to a year on the market. The median price of houses in Leumeah is currently $750,000.
It’s not the only Sydney house up for sale offering home seekers something different from the norm.
The Casula “Versace house”. Picture: Robert Pozo
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A Casula house decked out in wall-to-wall Versace, along with crystal chandeliers, gold painted walls, Roman columns and marble statues, has been relisted for sale after a fruitless sales campaign in 2019.
The owner, a self-described Versace “fanatic”, is even throwing in some of his Versace-inspired belongings with the sale, including busts of Roman emperors and figures from Greek mythology.
In Newtown, an apartment converted from an old grain silo has been listed for auction with $2 million expectations.
Part of the historic Crago Flour Mills, the three bedroom apartment is built into the top level of the six concrete silos that were originally used to store wheat.
The Newtown silo turned apartment block.
The Newtown apartment from the inside.
The apartment at 40/1 Gladstone St makes use of three of the original concrete silos to create a circular floorplan that includes a separate living room, a kitchen and three bedrooms.
Unit buyers are also being offered something more unusual Castle Hill, with a block set to be built on Ashford Ave.
Computer-generated images of the complex show an exterior that resembles the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, said to be one of the seven ancient wonders of the world.
An artist’s impression of the Castle Hill development.
A house converted from the former St Anne’s Catholic Church in Wallabadadah, near Tamworth, was recently listed with an interior described in the listing as blending Manhattan-style with gothic architecture. It has a $1.3 million to $1.4 million guide.
A house converted from a former corner shop in Newcastle suburb Hamilton South will go to auction July 16 with a $1.65 million guide.
The church conversion in Wallabadah. The price guide: $1.3m-$1.4m.
The sales come off the back of one of the most unusual property sales ever – a Mosman waterfront with a 25m tunnel that was reported to have drawn comparisons to a Bond villains hide-out.
Sellers Robert Procter and wife Wendy were reported to have hired a team of miners from Lightning Ridge to dig the tunnel across their sloping property and it forms part of the home.
Part of the tunnel has a gym.
The tunnel goes from the street level to a lift that services all the different levels.
The tunnel includes the home gym and the bare rock walls mirror the underground homes at Lightning Ridge, known as dugouts. The Rickard Ave house recently sold for $11 million.