Robin Boyd-designed Toorak house sells
Milne House, the single-colour Robin Boyd-designed Toorak house passed in at its August auction, has been sold.
Its price has not been disclosed, but it had been passed in on a $2.3 million vendor bid.
Bennison Mackinnon agents Hugh Hardy and Andrew Macmillan had initially listed it with $2.5 million-plus hopes.
It’s a four-bedroom courtyard home last traded unrenovated in early 2006 for $1.63 million.
Marketed as a Boyd masterpiece, Milne House comes with steep skilling roof forms in opposing combinations, bagged brick walls, separate wings, simple features and a near windowless front facade on its 640-square-metre block set on the corner of Toorak and Glenbervie roads.
The Malvern Heritage Study puts its date at 1970. It is acknowledged as one of Boyd’s last homes by heritage authorities, as he died aged 52 in 1971.
