The Red Hill Peony Estate

There are estates; and then there are empires of quiet command. Offered to the market for the very first time in its near-century-and-a-half custodianship since Red Hill’s earliest days, The Red Hill Peony Estate is less a property and more a sovereign chapter of Australian pastoral heritage.

Commanding 40.5 acres (approx.) across two titles of whispering grandeur, this ivy-clad Georgian masterpiece, set within the Mornington Peninsula’s inaugural peony farm, embodies a level of cultivated restraint and old-world ceremony that has become almost mythological. It does not beg for attention; it assumes it.

With its lineage of ownership and architectural purity, the home stands as a paragon of Georgian Revival refinement, its symmetry, its permanence, its quiet, imperious confidence. Approach is by way of a sweeping, tree-lined drive of 90 magnificent Lipstick maples,  that leads to a reception hall of cinematic scale. Here, a marble fireplace presides over the formal sitting room, while the dining room gleams in the kind of light that flatters both conversation and legacy. An adjoining library offers solitude and gravity, the sort of room where decisions of consequence feel inevitable.

Beyond, sunlight pours across the family living and dining domains, where an entertainer’s stone kitchen, hardwood cabinetry, of course gazes out toward manicured lawns and numerous and exquisite formal gardens that recall the disciplined beauty of an English estate.

Ascending the handcrafted staircase, the principal suite unfurls with the hauteur of an aristocrat at leisure: marble ensuite, indulgent dressing quarters, and a private retreat that feels airlifted from a Cotswold manor. The additional bedrooms, each a masterclass in proportion and poise, provide for extended family or privileged guests with discreet luxury.

A large and spectacular American Barn provides an amazing space for serious entertainment as well as a secluded Art Studio above.

At the estate’s rear, the bluestone guesthouse, renovated with surgical precision, marries heritage formality with contemporary calm. Its single bedroom and surrounding English gardens offer seclusion of the most exquisite variety, framed by 6,000 peonies and an orchestra of lilies and dahlias, awaiting their seasonal debut like courtiers in bloom.

Perfectly placed on what is, without hyperbole, Red Hill’s most vaunted street, the estate invites sympathetic modernisation or simply continued reverence. From its elevated vantage, one commands not just land, but legacy.

A short waltz from the celebrated Tedesca, Green Olive, Red Hill Village, and the Peninsula’s immaculate beaches, with dual access via Arthurs Seat Road and Pardalote Rise, The Red Hill Peony Estate exists in a realm beyond convenience, where beauty, history, and power align in a rare and thrilling equilibrium.

A once in a lifetime offering. A throne amid peonies.

In conjunction with OBrien Real Estate Mount Eliza

Matthew Murdoch 0421 880 086
Stavros Ambatzidis 0409 708 000.