New start for grand home

March 28, 2014, 8 a.m.

Malunnah to be restored to glory days

RELATED: Historic Devonport home Malunnah | photos

STATELY Devonport home Malunnah, built in 1888, has new owners after almost 10 years on the market, and is about to get a major facelift restoring it to former glory days.

The landmark property, at 1-3 Malunnah Close, is believed to have sold for an unconfirmed $1.2million two weeks ago.

Several years ago Malunnah was listed for $2.5million when waterfront property prices were inflated, and it failed to sell.

New owner Dennis Parker, a financial planner from Kiama, New South Wales, said he intends to refurbish the once grand Victorian homestead and eventually live in it.

Mr Parker said the builders would be going in to start work, but the restoration project could take a while.

Landscapers have already been at the site and truckloads of green waste taken away in readiness to start replicating the original garden design.

In old black and white photographs of the garden, it features box hedges and a gravel driveway.

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