Fitzroy's Independent Hall sells for $2,446,000
A converted Fitzroy church hall at 182 Fitzroy St — which featured as the home in Guy Pearce's TV drama Jack Irish — sold for $2,446,000 on the weekend.
Bettering its reserve by $446,000, there had been $1.9 million to $2 million price guidance for the gold-rush-era Independent Hall which has served as a church, Aboriginal mission, kindergarten and film set.
Since 1973, it’s been a home, Nelson Alexander agent Rick Daniel said.
It has also been the setting for several television productions such as Ricky & Pete and The Tenderhook.
It has been renovated for family and work-from-home living since it last traded for $563,000 in 2001.
Its previous owners include the late Australian composer Peter Tahourdin.
Comprising two bedrooms and a home office, the eclectic property features an expansive living and dining room with beamed ceilings and French doors that open to a deep brick-paved courtyard.
The house sold to a young professional woman living elsewhere in Fitzroy.
