Fashion designer Jodhi Meares has listed her cute Watsons Bay cottage for auction with a $4.8m price guide.
Fashion designer Jodhi Meares has listed her 1880s cottage in one of Sydney’s most desirable sleepy locations for a forthcoming spring auction.
Meares bought the heritage-listed double-storey two-bedder with its baby blue facade at 13 Cove St, Watsons Bay for $2.75m in 2017.
It was her local bolthole as she split her time between Sydney and the US.
The charming property has appeared on realestate.com.au tonight with Biller Property’s Calvin Stewart and Paul Biller.
When contacted, Biller was tightlipped about the vendor’s identity or her next move saying simply: “The fisherman’s cottages in Cove St are quite a rare offering and tightly held.”
There’s a $4.8m price guide.
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13 Cove St, Watsons Bay is full of charm.
The dining room spills to the landscaped garden and paved entertainers’ terrace,
This journalist inspected the cottage when it was offered seven years ago and recalls the dated interiors, ramshackle garden and ugly outhouse on the 250sqm block.
With Meares later purchasing it, both the grounds and the cottage have been spruced up.
I remember being impressed by the period detail. The upstairs two bedrooms. adjoining the large bathroom, were full of light, and there were glimpses of the harbour.
Unlike before, the pictures now show a modern tub and shower in the bathroom.
The new listing reminds me of the formal living room, separate kitchen and dining room that spills to the now landscaped garden and paved alfresco entertainers’ terrace, bathed in sun thanks to the north easterly aspect.
Both bedrooms have access to the large bathroom.
There’s now a modern bath and stylish shower.
What was a grungy old laundry is now being suggested as a garden studio that could serve as an ideal home office, music room or painters’ retreat.
Meares, a former model, established her own swimwear label Tigerlily Swimwear in 2000 but later sold it to Billabong International for an undisclosed sum. She created her activewear label The Upside in 2013.
Before her 2017 purchase, it was thought she’d cut her ties with Sydney after recently selling her Point Piper and Paddington properties.
The living area looks original.
A wall of cupboards have been added in one of the bedrooms.
The rear studio, which also has a bathroom, could serve as a music room or painter’s retreat.
She secured $2.6m for her Point Piper flat in May of 2017, bought for $1.23m in 2004 soon after her short marriage to billonaire James Packer, just days into its auction campaign.
In late 2015, Meares married Nick Tsindos, a 29-year-old photographer, on a beach in Hawai, but they split after 14 months.
They’d lived together in an Underwood St Paddington terrace, which Meares sold for about $2.5m in July 2017. She’d bought that with her mother, Denise Macpherson, for $900,000 in 2004.
Meares is still good mates with her billionaire ex-husband Packer after their split more than two decades ago
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