Guildford Bell home listed with $17.5m hopes
One of Victoria’s most significant modernist homes has returned to market – Seccull House, designed by revered architect Guilford Bell.
The c1972 single level F-shaped dwelling at 32 North Road carries a $16-$17.5 million guide.
Listed on the Victorian Heritage Register, and widely considered one of the architect’s most important works, the fully renovated property contains five bedrooms, five bathrooms and two living rooms.
There is also a multi-purpose room which can be used as a guest suite, studio, gym or home office.
The 2100 square metre site also contains a triple car garage, solar-heated in-ground pool and front garden with Olympic-sized trampoline and golf putting green with practice cage.
Seccull House previously sold for $8.888m in April, 2017.
That seller was cardiologist Martin Hiscock which held it four years with his wife, Silvana Marasco.
They were also responsible for the restoration working with Guilford Bell’s former partner Graham Fisher.
The original owners were William Seccull – a builder behind the former Royal Children’s Hospital – and his wife, Elaine.
RT Edgar’s Todd Newton and Rowan Bustin are the agents (continues below).
Guildford Bell
Mr Bell was a prominent Melbourne architect whose career spanned the 1950s through the 1980s, specialising in high-end residential design.
He became known for creating homes that blended modernist simplicity with strong attention to proportion, light, and privacy, often for some of Victoria’s most influential families.
Another of his revered dwellings, Simon House in Mt Eliza, was penned in the 1960s with Neil Clerehan.
Beddison/Swift House in Ivanhoe was also a Bell/Clerehan collaboration around that time.
Purcell House in East Ivanhoe was a project Mr Bell worked on alone, in 1962.
Developer David Deague famously demolished the designer’s Baillieu House at Sorrento in 2015 to expand a family holiday house compound.
In New South Wales, Mr Bell is behind the Drysdale Homestead at Killcare Heights on the Central Coast, and MacFarlane House in Sydney’s Vaucluse.
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