Neville Quarry-designed Broken Head listing: Title Tattle
Austria-bound film producer John Weiley and wife Susanne have listed Seven Mile, their 3.5-hectare Broken Head property set in coastal scrub on the outskirts of Byron Bay.
The four-bedroom Neville Quarry-designed house comes with an infinity pool, which overlooks the ocean. Graham Dunn of Byron Bay Property Sales and Nicolette van Wijngaarden at Unique Estates are selling the property with offers due May 23, having had the property sit on their websites since last year.
Half the land is rainforest and the other is pony paddocks. Title Tattle recalls when the filmmaking sea-changer sold his Paddington terrace, Jersey House in 2004 to move into their then new house which comes with a mix of tallowwood walls, brushbox floorboards and rosewood framed sliding glass doors in the main house. There's also a beach shack and studio in its grounds.
With $100 million box office takings, Weiley's first IMAX big screen film, Antarctica, ranks as the second highest grossing Australian production, after Crocodile Dundee.
The couple plan to reside in Austria, Susanne's home country, given plans to possibly buy a chalet and be closer to their children, who are in Europe. Originally from the NSW north coast, Weiley left the region for about 12 years to work for the BBC in London, and bought at Broken Head in 1997 for $770,000 from local solicitor Bob Friend and wife Vera.
Seven Mile was the last house designed by Neville Quarry, who died in 2004. The Seven Mile Beach Road property is set 33 metres above sea level, close to the 8.49-hectare holding sold by Melbourne's Smorgon family last year for $6.3 million to former WorleyParsons executive Russell Staley. The Staley purchase came with approval for an eight-bedroom, Kerry Hill-designed house on its holding of 460 metres beach frontage. The Staley holding had been previously traded at $5,020,000 in 2005 when sold by actor Paul Hogan and long-time colleagues John Cornell and Allan Johnston, who had paid $265,000 in 1983.
