Lindsay Fox lived at Phoenix Fairhaven in the 1970s, during which time he is reported to have added a 13-metre in-ground pool to the backyard.

McInnes Property Management Hawthorn is asking $2000 a week for Phoenix Fairhaven, or $3000 a week furnished.

At that price, the mansion is still not Melbourne’s most expensive rental home. That honour goes to a four-bedroom Italianate mansion in Grandview Grove, Prahran, which is asking $4000 a week – or about $208,000 a year.