Warrawee 1913 residence Rowardennan listed with $4.5 million-plus hopes: Title Tattle
Rowardennan, the 1913 Warrawee residence originally known as Maiala, has been listed for sale with $4.5 million-plus hopes.
Positioned at the end of a gravel driveway, the home was designed by architect BJ Waterhouse on 2,313 square metres of parklike gardens on Warrawee Avenue.
Its listing agent, Chana Scotcher at Chana Scotcher Realty, has sold the heritage listed house twice – firstly in 1996 when publisher Herbert Hillary sold and then again in 2000 when it was bought by the Mary Kay Pacific cosmetics boss, KK Chua. He then sold it on to the present vendors.
It was built along the principles of a French chateau for Joseph Beresford Grant. Beresford Grant is credited as being responsible for Warrawee being shop-free, as he bought the land earmarked for retail construction but preferred to keep it residential.
Designed in 1913, Rowardennan was initially set on 1.6 hectare. It came with rolling lawns, a vast garden that extended to Bangalla Avenue, and even a pony paddock. When the property was sold in 1936 Grant and his wife moved to the house they'd built on neighbouring land, and took the Maiala name with them to the Professor Leslie Wilkinson-designed residence.
