‘One of the last’: Walter Burley Griffin home goes up for auction

Kirsten CrazeUpdated 10 Nov 2026, 11:53amFirst published 10 Nov 2026, 11:50amAdd as a preferred source on GoogleJuniper Green in Pymble has a $9.5m to $10.45m price guide for a November 28 auction. Juniper Green was one of the last commissions Walter Burley Griffin undertook before he left for India in the 1930s. Now that slice of architectural history has come to market for the first time in nearly three decades. Nick Muzha and Andres Jaramillo of Belle Property North Shore have listed the landmark 4471sq m estate by the celebrated “father” of Canberra via an expressions of interest campaign with a price guide of $14m. MORE: New Mosman home record Walter Burley Griffin and his wife Marion Mahoney The Telegraph Rd home last traded for $240k in 1999. Juniper Green was commissioned in the mid-1930s by David Pratten, heir to the Pratten Brothers publishing fortune. Kelvin Sherwood, retired founder of one of Australia’s largest trucking suspension and brake specialists Air Brake Corporation, and his late wife Mary, purchased Juniper Green in 1999 for $240,000. The six-bedroom, six-bathroom home at 88 Telegraph Rd, also known as the D.A. Pratten House, was commissioned in the mid-1930s ...