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This palatial home has fully imported marble from Italy for the flooring (with bespoke inlays) for the staircase, as well as for bathrooms and vanity slabs, window sills and skirtings. Matching hand-crafted wrought iron adorns the front gate, the balustrades of the various balconies and staircases, as well as decorating many glass doors. Crystal chandeliers adorn the reception rooms. There is a stunning glass panelled dome over the entrance, the staircase and upstairs landing, and all the reception rooms and bedrooms open onto patios or balconies.

This carefully curated mansion is seeking a new owner who will love an Italian-style grand home, situated on over two acres in high Sandhurst, with a huge decorative pool, spacious piazza for entertaining, plus a tennis court and guest house!

Imagine your guests being chauffeur-driven up the curved driveway and alighting at the grand front portico with fountain, entering the high volume marble entrance hall with magnificent staircase, and being directed out to the piazza for pre-dinner drinks and music, or in winter to the extensive lounge, with adjoining second lounge/ music room. Cocktails can also be served in the elegant room adjoining the formal dining room, and the dining room itself has a huge crystal chandelier and can seat between ten and twenty guests.

There is a panelled study that opens onto the front portico, for business visitors. Glamorous guest cloakroom. The family/TV room has doors opening onto the piazza and pool, as well as to the informal dining/breakfast room and the covered entertainment patio. The patio has a fitted spit braai, large skylights, and easily houses lounge and dining suites.

Attractive spacious kitchen, surrounded with windows, has granite surfaces, glossy white fittings, central island, Bosch gas and electric hob, extractor fan and two eye level ovens. There is a fitted pantry, fitted wine store room, a walk-in cold room, plus a scullery.

After ascending the circular marble staircase, the landing, with the spectacular dome overhead, opens to a circular balcony over the entrance portico and fountain. The spacious master suite has a bedroom with French doors and windows on three sides, for masses of light, that open onto the balcony that encircles the front of the house. From the balcony, there are grand stairways on each side flowing down to the garden. The master suite has 'His' and 'Hers' dressing rooms, plus a safe room. The large en-suite bathroom has a marble vanity with two basins and cupboards below, bath with marble surround and hand shower, marble shower, marble framing around the large mirror, plus on the window sills. Separate toilet and bidet with marble vanity and basin.

Three further upstairs bedrooms have crystal chandeliers, they open onto balconies with shutters on the doors and windows, have built-in cupboards or dressing rooms and bathrooms en-suite.

The spacious guest house consists of a lounge, with study alcove, that opens onto a patio; a kitchen with granite surfaces, hob, sink and fitted cupboards; two bedrooms with built-in cupboards, plus a full bathroom. A staircase leads up to the roof.

The room under the piazza has a large central space for a gym or entertainment, two showers, sauna and jacuzzi (need repair), toilet and basin. A separate building houses the staff quarters, the garages and laundry room - the staff suite consists of two bedrooms with built-in cupboards, two bathrooms, plus a lounge /kitchen.

The furniture, most of which was commissioned for the house, can be sold as well. The property is fully walled with electric fencing, has interior and exterior security beams and an automated gate.