Historic grand mansion Wavertree in Kent Town has been given a breathtaking renovation and now hits the market, opening the door for its new owners to turn it back into the grand family home it once was, create a boutique hotel or continue operating it as some of SA’s most sophisticated office spaces.

Former Internode owner Simon Hackett and his wife Anna bought the 1860s-built property at 64 North Tce in 2012 and to say they have since transformed it – with the help of Williams Burton Leopardi and Sarah Constructions – is an understatement.

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The property’s stunning facade as seen from North Tce, Kent Town. Supplied

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Another angle at of that stunning facade. Supplied

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“I was driving past the home and saw a ‘For Sale’ sign out the front and I thought: ‘That’s a gorgeous building, I wonder what’s inside’,” Mr Hackett says.

“We immediately fell in love with it. It was larger than we needed for our aspirations for a post-Internode family office, but my wife, who is architecturally trained, and I looked at the place and thought: “No, we want to renovate the heck out of this.”

“Wavertree Mansion, the oldest building here, is currently our family office for my team, and a whole heap of other happy residents occupy the rest of the place. We’ve spared no expense, and it’s interesting because this is not the standard you would apply to an office, it’s the standard you would apply to a luxury home.”

A view out over the central courtyard. Supplied

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One of the more formal rooms, complete with character fireplace. Supplied

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One of the property’s many open light-filled spaces. Supplied

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Wavertree Mansion is its own stand-alone building, touching the other three buildings on the property that collectively form an open courtyard in the middle.

All up, the property has 1830sqm of living space, has eight bathrooms and could offer 10 spacious bedrooms. As you would expect, the property features the latest technology throughout, and boasts an impressive rooftop solar array of 350 panels.

“The location is brilliant, it’s a comfortable walk into the city and because of how we’ve done it, even though it’s on a busy road when you’re inside you’re not conscious of it at all,” Mr Hackett says.

A sophisticated boardroom. Supplied

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Another fantastic open office space. Supplied

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One of the property’s stunning bathrooms. Supplied

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A stunning alfresco space. Supplied

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“There are two titles on the site, so you could potentially add another structure to the property. It could make a fantastic office if someone wanted to do as we did and occupy Wavertree and rent the rest of it; it could make a great head office; it could be a grand home once again, and it’s got the quality and calibre here for you to turn it into a boutique hotel.

“We’re enormously proud of it and we’re looking forward to passing it on to someone else who loves it just as much, and we’d love for it to still be looking just as gorgeous 100 years from now. It really is a truly incredible property.”

The property is on the market without a price guide through Stephanie and John Williams of Williams Real Estate. Expressions of interest close Thursday, November 28 at noon.