Placeholder Content Image

Olympics legend’s home up for sale for only second time in history

<p>The home of Freddy Lane, Olympic gold medallist, is now up for grabs.</p> <p>Built for the legendary swimmer in the 1920s, the residence is three-levels and has long been registered with the National Trust as it remains an example of work by acclaimed architect Leslie Wilkinson.</p> <p>Lane won two gold medals at the 1900 Olympics in Paris and is known now for building the MacCallum Pool located in the eastern side of Cremorne Point.</p> <p>The home has the classic 1930s arches and columns that were typical throughout expensive, stylish homes of that era.</p> <p>Lane’s home was also dubbed the “skyscraper” as it was three-levels and resembled The Astore located in the CBD.</p> <p>Lane died in 1969 and the house was passed on to his daughter Jean Rosalind Rubensohn, who sold it in 1979 for $230,000 to former Vogue Entertaining executive editor Sue Fairlie-Cuninghame and her husband David Fairlie-Cuninghame.</p> <p>The home has maintained its gloriously perfect original finishes, including detailed picture plates and hanging staff bells on the kitchen wall.</p> <p>However, the cellar where Rees worked is now a 5000-bottle wine cellar.</p> <p>The self-contained studio above the garage that was once called home by the family’s chauffeur still sits, along with the bedroom behind the kitchen that had been built for the maid.</p> <p>The couple have listed the Cremorne Point home during on the strongest housing markets in Sydney as they plan to downsize on their Mudgee cattle farm and vineyard permanently.</p>

Real Estate

Placeholder Content Image

Inside the $8 million home of Karl Stefanovic's ex-wife Cassandra Thorburn

<p>To say the last 12 months have been <a href="http://www.oversixty.com.au/news/news/2017/10/karl-stefanovics-ex-wife-opens-up-about-their-divorce/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>rough for Cassandra Thorburn</strong></span></a> would be the understatement of 2017. But now, as the 46-year-old continues to make sense of her split with Today host Karl Stefanovic, reports have suggested that as part of the separation Thorburn has landed a stunning $8 million mansion in the Sydney suburb of Cremorne.</p> <p>Thorburn is reportedly living in the lavish property with the divorced couple’s three children, Jackson, 18, Ava, 12 and River, 10, which reportedly has five bedrooms, four bathrooms, two kitchens and a swimming pool.</p> <p>To see the property, <strong>scroll through the gallery above</strong>.</p> <p>Thorburn <a href="http://www.oversixty.com.au/news/news/2017/10/karl-stefanovics-ex-wife-opens-up-about-their-divorce/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>opened up to <em>Woman’s Day</em></strong></span></a> about the separation, describing “dark times”, and even telling the magazine the split had felt, “like someone had died”.</p> <p>“There were days in the beginning I would get up, put on a brave face and drop the kids at school, then I’d get to the back door and I would lie in a heap for the rest of the day unable to move — there were very dark days,” she told the magazine.</p> <p>“I was completely gazumped when I realised Karl had gone.</p> <p>“I questioned and doubted myself about everything.</p> <p>“I slept on the couch in front of the fire for months because I didn’t want to go near the marital bed. I was in a very dark place.”</p> <p>What are your thoughts?</p>

Domestic Travel

Our Partners