{"id":35809,"date":"2021-11-30T14:37:02","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T01:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propertynoise.co.nz\/au\/?p=35809"},"modified":"2021-11-30T14:37:02","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T01:37:02","slug":"killaras-house-of-hancock-listed-with-20-million-record-hopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propertynoise.co.nz\/au\/killaras-house-of-hancock-listed-with-20-million-record-hopes\/","title":{"rendered":"Killara\u2019s \u2018House of Hancock\u2019 listed with $20 million record hopes"},"content":{"rendered":"

PHOTO: Gina and Lang Rinehart<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The historic Killara estate Wharncliffe, where the late mining magnate Lang Hancock momentously married his former maid Rose Lacson, is on offer with a $20 million guide.<\/p>\n

The Georgian revival residence on 7500 square metres with a swimming pool and tennis court is one of the Upper North Shore\u2019s most significant estates, which goes some way to explain its record price aspirations far and above the region\u2019s $15 million record \u2013 set last year by the Bremon estate in Warrawee \u2013 and the $16.3 million exchange on a Killara residence that is expected to settle in the new year.<\/p>\n

Wharncliffe was built in 1939 at a cost of \u00a3600 for metal merchant William George Wright to a design by architect Clifford Finch featuring its grand sandstone facade with a columned portico.<\/p>\n

But beyond the marble foyer and circular staircase is an ornate ballroom where history was made when it was owned by Hancock\u2019s lawyer Carnegie Fieldhouse, and who converted what was then an indoor pool into a temporary ballroom in preparation for the Hancock-Lacson nuptials.<\/p>\n

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Lang Hancock and Rose Lacson on their wedding day in 1985.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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Hancock\u2019s daughter Gina Rinehart<\/a> never made it to the happy event in 1985, but among Hancock\u2019s friends and business associates who were in attendance was Perth land developer-turned real estate agent William Porteous, who watched Fieldhouse walk his future wife down the makeshift aisle.<\/p>\n

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Two minutes away from Gina Rinehart\u2019s mega mansion in Queensland sits an uninhabitable pre-war property<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n

In 1986 Fieldhouse sold the property for $2.6 million to developer Paul Petersen, who filled in the pool and turned the ballroom into a more permanent structure.<\/p>\n

Hong Lu, a property developer from China and a director of Chinese-backed property developer Qiantang Investment Group, and his wife Jia Yan were drawn to Wharncliffe because it was of a similar character and scale to their home in Hangzhou.<\/p>\n

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Mining magnate Gina Rinehart tops list of Australia\u2019s richest people in 2020<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n

Having bought it in 2010 for $7.8 million,\u00a0the couple made headlines five years later\u00a0when their DA to demolish the ballroom was knocked back, prompting council to heritage-list the property, all of which coincided with the telemovie\u00a0House of Hancock<\/em>\u00a0that aired on Nine, starring Mandy McElhinney and Sam Neill.<\/p>\n

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The ballroom in the Wharncliffe mansion was originally an indoor pool.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

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