Designer Clovelly beach home.

BANK of Scotland Edinburgh-based senior executive Patrick Eltridge has sold his designer beach home in Clovelly which was listed with $6 million hopes.

The home of the former Telstra chief investment officer and his wife Julie featured on TV show Grand Designs Australia in 2012.

Belle Property Bondi Junction agent Daniel Gillespie sold the home well ­before its scheduled August auction.

Patrick Eltridge.

Local whispers suggest it has sold to Steve Nasteski, who needed a stopgap home, having recently sold his apartment in the Bondi Pacific building to Ginia Rinehart, the daughter of mining magnate Gina Rinehart.

It doesn’t look it but the Clovelly house was a prefab modules construction. It cost $2.6 million.

The challenging logistics involved in transporting four 17-tonne modules from Melbourne to Sydney and craning them into place.

They paid $1,635,000 for the old fibro cottage on a whim back in 2005.

They didn’t begin building until four years later, then within six months the home was built, but not on site.

The home was designed in four modules by architect Pleaser Perkins.

Now set within gardens by ­Secret Gardens, the challenge was to make it not look prefab, Julie Eltridge advised on the show.

The pods once lifted into position created an uber modern, two-storey residence clad in zinc and timber. The home has four bedrooms, a home office, with a feature in its suspended fireplace. An outdoor terrace and pool sit on a 600sqm block.