A sprawling vineyard estate once owned by the Tyrrell family and more recently the late Len Evans OBE has been put up for sale with an estimated AUS $10 million price tag.
The Loggerheads Estate in Hunter Valley. Source: Jurds Real Estate
Loggerheads, in Australia’s Hunter Valley, was last sold in 2008 to Robin and Judy Crawford by Len Evan’s widow, Trish Evans. Before that it was owned by the Tyrrell family.
Set within 220 acres in Pokolbin, the property boasts seven bedrooms, six bathrooms and a four hectare, 35-year-old vineyard planted with Gamay and Shiraz.
Evans, who died in 2006, was born in England but moved to New Zealand and the Australia in 1953. He founded the Australian Wine Bureau in 1965, wrote the first major encyclopaedia of Australian wine in 1973 and was praised in the Oxford Companion to Wine for having done “more to advance the cause of wine in Australia than any other individual”.
The property, listed by Jurds Real Estate, has been recently refurbished by Sydney-based architect Michael Suttor with its gardens designed by Paul Bangay. It has the bonus of a fully licensed cellar door, separate residence, a dairy barn and wine storage shed.
Alan Jurd told Australia’s Property Observer that he hopes to get $6m for the home and $4m for its commercial buildings.
The Loggerheads homestead. Source: Jurds
